Members of the Bi-2 group are being held in an open-air cell in searing warmth in Thailand

In keeping with him, the members of the group are stored in a cell underneath the open sky, they’re disadvantaged of technique of communication, they don’t seem to be given translations of court docket paperwork.

As well as, Russian-speaking “negotiators” are periodically “planted” within the musicians’ cell, who put psychological stress on the group members, threatening them with the implications of the case and hinting at bribes.

“The circumstances they’re being stored in are appalling. Now they’re in an open cell – it is a cage underneath the hellish solar, it is 35-40 levels. The final time the organizer of the live performance was allowed to see the blokes, he noticed a bunch of bare our bodies of their underwear as a result of all the garments had been soaked and there was no shade,” the interviewer stated.

The state of affairs with the group “Bi-2” is underneath the direct management of the Russian authorities, this can be a demonstrative crackdown on musicians who don’t help the warfare, the journalist stated.

Now, many people who find themselves serving to the group are attempting to attract consideration to the plight of the performers via diplomatic channels and within the Western media.

January 25 Bi-2 musicians had been arrested proper after a live performance in Phuket. The following day the court docket fined them as much as 100 {dollars}, which they paid on the spot.

They had been then detained by the migration police. The musicians had been taken to Bangkok, the place the problem of their presence in Thailand is being resolved. The group faces deportation. It’s presently being clarified whether or not they can be deported to Russia or ordered to depart on their very own. The leaders of the group have Israeli and Australian passports.

Arrested for performing with out work permits

It was in Thailand members of the rock group “Bi-2” had been detainedwho held concert events with out work permits, media reported, citing tourism police.

Portal “The Insider” claims {that a} supply near the Russian Ministry of International Affairs stated that the concert events of Russian artists in Thailand are canceled on the request of Russian Consul Basic in Phuket Vladimir Sosnov.

“So far as I do know, that is Sosnov’s private initiative, but it surely might have been requested by Lavrov himself, for whom Thailand is likely one of the remaining nations the place he’s effectively acquired,” the supply stated.

Earlier, the chief of the group “Bi-2” Igor Bortnik, recognized by the pseudonym Liova, wrote on Instagram that he won’t return to Russia. Below one of many posts on Instagram, which talked concerning the celebration of Victory Day, Liova wrote that “Putin’s Russia is nothing however disgust”, “Putin and all his mentally retarded bastards destroyed the nation” and that he doesn’t intend to return to Russia.

in 2023 in Could, the Ministry of Justice of Russia acknowledged I. Bortnik as a “overseas agent”.