Deportation and Surveillance in Russia

Point they found incriminating information on my phone. Their faces changed in a second, but they released us. But she said the police continue to harass her. After I returned home, the police came and questioned me again because of the nervous stress, my hair had started falling out. Whenever I see a police car, I feel terrified and start thinking, what if they're coming for me? She's certain that her mobile phone is being monitored. She says it keeps on doing very strange things. I feel as if I'm in a cage, like in a cage zoo. She lives in fear in her hometown, but she's still in Russia, and that's why we have to protect her identity. How typical is Kat's experience, being left in this. This kind of limbo? It's almost like a limbo under surveillance, it sounds like. But how typical is that? Well, there's. There's no typical typical scenario. It really depends on people's circumstances. So some of those who are deported are wanted, wanted in inverted commas, criminals. So they're arrested and they're put on trial. Others are just interrogated, or there might be subsequently a criminal investigation opened against them. Some have been sent to the front line in Ukraine to fight. Katya said that every single male deportee on her flight attendant was given summonses, right. Military papers. But there have been some really shocking stories of people who have been deported and returned. One activist, a guy called Leonid Milhin, he was an anti war activist, he was deported from the US back to Russia last year. He had posted photographs of Vladimir Putin on social media with the message, Putin murderer, fascist, usurper. Now, after he was deported, he was arrested in the airport and charged with justifying terrorism, which is an incredibly serious charge in Russia. And just a couple of weeks ago, he was sentenced to six years in prison in a penal colony. And what's happened to Artyom after he arrived back in Russia? So Artyom, when he arrived in Moscow, he was taken into interrogation like everyone else. And as soon as the.