Participants in the Limonov Readings in Krasnodar required medical attention after being violently detained.

Security forces acted harshly against detained participants of the "Limonov Readings" in Krasnodar, with two of the activists requiring emergency medical care. Human rights activists have launched a fundraising campaign to appeal the arrests.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," security forces harshly detained eight participants of the "Limonov Readings" in Krasnodar. The court arrested them for between two and 10 days under administrative charges of displaying extremist symbols and organizing an unsanctioned event. Ruslan Khubaev and Alexey Leonenko received the longest sentences, 10 days.

Alexandra Papsheva and Yana Auzeva were released on January 19, and Kirill Dultsev was released on January 20. Auzeva reported that she complained to the temporary detention center of severe stomach pain related to her appearance. She needed to take medication, but security officials refused to allow it. Later, already in the temporary detention center, the girl needed an ambulance.

An ambulance also came to Anatoly Belyshev—he was beaten on the back during his arrest and needed painkillers.

Ilya Pakhalenko was threatened into giving his fingerprints, and the girls heard screams and sounds of a struggle.

The girls also noted that the cells were "as cold as outside," according to the National Human Rights Defense Telegram channel.

Human rights activists have announced a fundraising campaign to appeal the arrests.

"We have already spent 63,629 rubles on attorney fees at the first-instance hearings and transfer to the temporary detention facility. We need your help to continue paying for the defense: we need 154,000 rubles to file appeals against the unfair rulings of the Krasnodar court. We already have 73,000 rubles, and we need to raise 81,000 rubles," the statement reads.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," a court in Krasnodar found Ruslan Khubaev, a member of the election commission who discovered ballot stuffing at a polling station, guilty of disrespecting the authorities and publicly displaying extremist symbols, and ordered him to pay a fine of 67,000 rubles. Before that, he was arrested for 14 days under administrative charges of hooliganism and distribution of prohibited symbols. One of the administrative cases was opened due to the symbols of "E. V. Limonov's Other Russia," which the court deemed similar to the emblem of the National Bolshevik Party**.

Earlier, on October 28, 2011, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced five defendants in the case of the riots on Manezhnaya Square, activists of "The Other Russia," including Ruslan Khubaev, who was sentenced to four years in prison. On March 29, 2012, the Moscow City Court commuted the sentence for some of the convicted. For Ruslan Khubaev, the term was reduced to three years and ten months in prison.