Six agitators from the LDPR were detained in Chita

Five agitators of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), detained on Thursday in Chita during the distribution of campaign materials, are suspected of violating the election legislation, the State Duma deputy Rifat Shaikhutdinov told RIA Novosti . They were detained, the deputy said, "on the Square of the Revolution, where the LDPR tent stood, and on Lenin Street. They distributed campaign material there." On Friday, another was detained.

According to Shaikhutdinov, all agitators are students of Chita universities. They were delivered to the central police department of cheats. The police released three of them immediately, and from two they took explanations and released it in four hours.

According to RIA Novosti, an employee of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Chita Region, a protocol on an administrative offense was drawn up in relation to the detainees, the case file was transferred to the Chita District Court.

LDPR headquarters Arkady Shemelin explained that the ATS officers suspect agitators under Article 5.10 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation - preliminary agitation outside the campaign period and in places prohibited for campaigning on elections.

According to him, the agenda about the turnout to the court has not yet been handed to the detainees, and the date of the court session is unknown.

According to Shaikhutdinov, in this case, police exceeded their powers. "The LDPR agitators had all the permits for the picket, we notified the regional election commission," he said.

Nina Dotsenko, Deputy Chairman of the regional election commission, said that she knew nothing about this incident, no complaints have yet been received in the committee.

The New Times reported the detention of four citizens on street shares of the LDPR. Of these, only two were detained on the Revolution Square.

An employee of the LDPR headquarters in Chita said that among the detainees one party agitator, and the second - his acquaintance. "In our area of ​​the revolution, a propaganda was installed in front of the administration of the Central District, where people were offered literature. There, as allowed, one person worked. But his friend and law enforcement agencies joined him with a sign of an unauthorized picket," he said

The party representative also said that two more agitators were detained on Thursday before. "Near the store" Souvenirs "they handed out the drivers of the LDPR ribbons on the car. But in this case, they already figured out that there was no violation, and the agitators were released

On Friday, another LDPR agitator was detained, reports the Agency "Reggling." He was also taken to the central police department; According to the Aksenov duty officer, Colonel Safronov, the head of the public security police, was authorized. The police refused further comments. As soon as it became known about the detention, the State Duma of Shaikhutdinov and the deputy of the City Duma Dmitry Tyurukhanov came to join the agitator, but they did not give an intelligible explanation either. As the lawyer of the regional branch of the LDPR explained to the places in which it is forbidden to carry out campaigning are only the territories of the army units and institutions. The streets of the city are not prohibited for agitation.

On Monday, the Extra Media agency reports, the former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi , who is running for the Duma from the LDPR, will speak in Chita in Chita.