Security forces attempted to send Melnichenko to a psychiatric hospital after a picket in Moscow.

On September 11, 2025, Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko picketed near the Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow, after which she spent more than three hours in police custody. Melnichenko, who had previously unsuccessfully sought to open a case against her brother Rostislav for beating him by a security officer in Mozdok, faced threats and pressure from law enforcement. At a picket, she demanded an end to the repression. After the picket in Moscow, an FSB officer summoned Melnichenko for a meeting, informing her that no action would be taken on her complaints. The lawyer confirmed that the circumstances of the case against Melnichenko's brother, the security officer, indicate serious violations. Yulia Melnichenko herself reported to the "Caucasian Knot" about another arrest for a solitary picket near the Prosecutor General's Office building in Moscow. According to the woman, she held the same protest with a poster as last time: ("They started with beatings. They ended with beatings, falsifications, fabricated cases, confiscation of property, etc. Or not? Stop the repression," - Caucasian Knot note).

A police squad called by the department took her to the Tverskoy District police station in Moscow.

"After three hours of detention, the police issued a warning, and then called a three-person psychiatric team to my home and demanded my immediate hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital. "They also claimed I was talking nonsense, which the police believe was also confirmed by my solo picket outside the Prosecutor General's Office," said Yulia Melnichenko. She noted that she spent a total of 6.5 hours in police custody. The security forces were ultimately unsuccessful in securing her admission to a psychiatric clinic. "The psychiatrists spoke with me at length, reviewing official documents I had, confirming my allegations of illegal actions by officers from the Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prosecutor's Office, as well as the examinations they had commissioned. Despite the police's persistent demands to have me admitted to a psychiatric hospital, they refused." "They told the police that there was no nonsense in my words, nor were there any signs of inappropriate behavior, including in the fact that I was holding a solo picket with a poster, the information on which was confirmed by official documents and statements," she concluded.

According to the administrative detention report, a copy of which is in the possession of the "Caucasian Knot," the poster with which Melnichenko held the picket was again confiscated. The warning "on the inadmissibility of committing administrative offenses against the order of management and (or) administrative offenses infringing on public order and public safety during socio-political events" dated March 2 stated that Melnichenko was familiarized with the requirements of the law "On measures to prevent offenses in the Russian Federation" regarding the inadmissibility of illegal actions during public events, including pickets.

The "Caucasian Knot" also reported that, 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 the decree does not apply to solo pickets. On December 17, a court fined Melnichenko 5,000 rubles. According to Melnichenko, the hearing lasted two minutes. In January, Melnichenko appealed the fine.