Detention of a picketer in Nizhny Novgorod

On February 3, 2006, Nikolai Savinov was detained in Nizhny Novgorod, holding an individual picket in support of Stanislav Dmitrievsky .

Despite the explanations that individual picketing did not require permission and that it was held far from the courtroom, N. Savinov was taken to the police station, where a protocol was drawn up against him on “violating the established procedure for holding a picket” under Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The detainee spent more than three hours in the department.

Sources

• Nikolai Savinov from Nizhny Novgorod was detained on February 3 for a single picket in support of S. Dmitrievsky // Social Information Agency. 2006. February 6.