Moscow police raid bathhouse with Kyrgyz citizens and force them to crawl on the floor

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- A video is spread across social networks in which men are forced to crawl on the floor by masked police SWAT officers. In the footage, police officers demand that they keep their heads down. The sounds of blows can be heard.

The information being circulated says that this happened on April 10 in Moscow. The police raided a bathhouse where citizens and natives of Kyrgyzstan were relaxing. On April 12, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that all Kyrgyzstanis were taken to the police station in Timiryazevsky district of Moscow to check their documents and legality of their stay in Russia.



The Kyrgyz Embassy in Russia is providing assistance to all those taken to the police station. The diplomatic mission is clarifying the facts about the use of illegal actions by Russian law enforcement agencies during the raid. This issue is under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the embassy.

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