Under the shadow of the teahouse

On July 31, people came to Triumfalnaya Square, where a teahouse was recently opened to the delight of all lovers of a quiet life without disturbances, on July 31, people came who were not indifferent to the fact that in the city and the country they constantly spit on Article 31 of the Constitution, which guarantees citizens freedom of assembly. Well, the police, naturally, began to detain them, since the Moscow authorities, naturally, did not approve the action in support of Article 31. According to ovdinfo.org, as of 18.27, five people were detained, including Irina Kalmykova, a mother of many children who had been on hunger strike for the eighth day, who was detained with a poster “Those starving under the walls of United Russia have no choice.” Later it became known that the leader of the Other Russia, Eduard Limonov, and 16 other people were detained. Activist Alexander Makarov was kicked on a bus and was hospitalized with a suspected broken arm. Ten people have already been released from the Basmanny police station, two have been placed in administrative detention cells and are charged with petty hooliganism. Later, they were released, like all the other detainees, but activist Poletaykina was charged 550 rubles, and the protocol was not issued.

In Nizhny Novgorod, 10 people were detained at a similar rally, one was beaten until he bled, reports ovdinfo.org. On August 1, most of the detainees were sentenced to various terms of administrative arrest. And about. The head of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of “The Other Russia” Yuri Staroverov received eight days of arrest, activist of the unregistered party Oleg Laletin, anarchist Sergei Kuznetsov and civil activist Gleb Kalinichev - five days each, civil activists Ilya Myaskovsky and Igor Nesterov - two days each, activist of “The Other Russia” Anna Kuznetsova - a day. The founder of the NN.ru portal, Ilya Osipov, was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 rubles and released from custody.