UPDATE: Two hours after posting this update to the Free Voina English Twitter feed, their site has gone dark. The outage seems to have been an unrelated incident, as the site is back online.

Free Voina is reporting this morning that Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov, both recently released from jail, and a third Voina member, Natalya Sokol, were attacked by plainclothes members of the anti-extremism police in St. Petersberg yesterday.

The attack follows a press conference held by Vorotnikov and Nikolayev earlier in the day, wherein they discussed the conditions of their detention.

Voina’s November 15th action St. Petersberg, involving the artists overturning a police car as part of an anti-corruption protest, was the precursor to their arrest. Images by Voina, arrangement by Hyperallergic.

Minor injuries are reported, and a flash memory stick the artists were carrying was confiscated.  Oleg Vorotnikov describes the attack:

When we left the press conference in the Ligovsky prospect, we noticed that we were followed by a group of typical thugs. We observed that those were clearly anti-extremism officers… One police officer attacked Lenya from behind. They waved their IDs but we couldn’t examine them. They pushed baby pram away and hit Kasper against his face causing a bruise on his left chick. Two others knocked Kozlyenok down into the paddle and started kicking her. They injured her hand very seriously. I managed to free myself from the officers who were holding me and covered Kozlyenok with my body. The blows rained against my back and head. Kozlyenok’s face was already bashed. What’s more when they dragged her by hair, they pulled out one of her braids. The officers were trying to take away a camera from her. But she held it tightly. Activist Lyubka seized one of the officers and he bit her hand…

More details to come…