Local environmental activists who have challenged runaway construction have been subject to harassment in the lead up to the games. On Monday, Yevgeny Vitishko, a member of Environment Watch North Caucasus, a green campaign group, was jailed for 15 days for swearing in public. Four other members of the group who were detained in the regional capital of Krasnodar the same day said officers who interrogated them wanted to know if they planned a protest action when the Olympic Torch passed through the city.