Yulia Melnichenko's picket in Moscow resulted in an arrest.

Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko held a picket outside the Prosecutor General's Office building demanding punishment for the security officer who beat her brother and an end to the persecution of their family. She was taken to the police station and released after two hours.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," on September 11, 2025, Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko held a picket outside the Prosecutor General's Office building in Moscow, after which she spent more than three hours in police custody. Melnichenko, who had previously unsuccessfully sought to open a case regarding the beating of her brother Rostislav by a security officer in Mozdok, faced threats and pressure from law enforcement. At a picket, she demanded "an end to the repression."

Security officers detained Yulia Melnichenko outside the Prosecutor General's Office building when she held a solo picket over the refusal to open a criminal case against the security officer who beat her brother, the human rights project OVD-Info (listed as a foreign agent) reported today.

The woman held a sign reading, "Started with beatings. Ended with beatings, falsifications, fabricated cases, confiscation of property, etc. Or not? Stop the repression." She was taken to the police station in Moscow's Tverskoy District, the publication states.

A message on behalf of Yulia Melnichenko was also received by the "Caucasian Knot" today. "Today she held another solo picket near the Prosecutor General's Office. For a long time, they have not considered our complaints," it stated.

They released her two hours later. They issued a warning and confiscated her poster.

According to the message, police detained the woman 25 minutes after the picket began. "He took me to the Tverskoy police station, where they released me two hours later. They issued a warning and confiscated the poster," Melnichenko said.

"Furthermore, by decision of the prosecutor, our land plot was confiscated, despite the fact that, by law, land disputes are resolved exclusively in court. The goal of my action is to have our complaints considered, since all our written complaints and those received in person at the Prosecutor General's Office are ignored," Yulia Melnichenko stated.

According to a photocopy of a document drawn up by an employee of the Tverskoy District Department of Internal Affairs and dated February 24, Yulia Melnichenko "was issued a warning regarding the inadmissibility of actions, administrative offenses against public order and/or administrative offenses that infringe on public order and public safety during socio-political events."

As a reminder, on October 30, 2025, Yulia Melnichenko was detained for her solo picket outside the North Ossetian prosecutor's office. Security officials accused her of violating the republic's head of state's decree on the procedure for holding public events, although this decree does not apply to solo pickets. On December 17, the court fined Melnichenko 5,000 rubles. According to her, the hearing lasted two minutes. In January, Yulia Melnichenko appealed the fine.