Civil activists were arrested before the elections

Activist of the Tver coalition "For honest elections", the leader of the local branch of the "demo" Yuri Suetin received 10 days of administrative arrest. As his associates told the Frances.ru, on Friday the world court of the Central District condemned Suetin under an article on petty hooliganism. According to the court, the activist was intoxicated in the form of a haste on the street and picked up to passers -by. At the trial, the witnesses were confused in the testimony, the policeman who detained Suetin could not accurately indicate the place where the offense was committed. Suetina was detained on Thursday evening. He was supposed to coordinate the work of the headquarters of observers in the March 4 elections.

On Wednesday, in Tver, the leader of the local branch of the Left Front Dmitry Konnov was arrested for 7 days under the same article. He was also accused of obscenely expressed in a drunken form. Opposition activists intend to hold a series of single pickets from the Tver Internal Affairs Directorate.

On Friday, the coordinator of the Left Front in the Rostov Region, one of the organizers of the shares "For Honest Elections" Vladislav Ryazantsev was also convicted of 10 days of arrest for obscene abuse in a public place. According to the press service of the Left Front, Ryazantsev, who does not admit his guilt, declared a dry hunger strike.

For 10 days, the organizer of protest rallies in Ufa was also arrested. The activist of the Ufa Voice of Ufa on Thursday, Kirill Mikhailov, announced a hunger strike. He was convicted of illegal campaigning and disobedience to the police. Within a few hours, a lawyer was not allowed to Mikhailov. On Saturday, a group of activists of the "Most Honest Observer" movement was held near the Ufa state cycle of Leshmob in masks in support of Mikhailov.

In Ulyanovsk, on Friday, an activist of the Left Front, one of the organizers of the shares "for the honest elections" Nail Imameev was detained. The police arrived at him to work at the Aviastar plant and and took it to the Zavolzhsky District Department of Internal Affairs. Imameev managed to call and report that he was charged with the spread of anti -Putin leaflets at the Aviastar, after which the connection was interrupted. The further fate of the detained activist is still unknown.

On Wednesday, six differentials and civilian activists received administrative terms up to 10 days per campaign “Stop the dictatorship!”, Which took place the day before from the Central Election Commission. Another participant in the action, an activist from Buryatia Nadezhda Nizovkin, was forcibly hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital by court decision, but then released.

In Moscow on Friday, four unknown people beat a participant in the protest movement, a candidate for municipal deputies Peter Miloserdov. He was attacked when he, together with another candidate Konstantin Kolesnichenko, carried campaigns on the entrances on Vernadsky Avenue. Miloserov said that he was beaten with his feet, and Kolesnichenko was held and "promised to kill." According to Miloserdov, he used a gas can. The ambulance arrived in place diagnosed him with numerous bruises. The police said that the recordings of video cameras do not confirm information about beating.

On Thursday, the Human Rights Watch International Human Rights Office called on the Russian authorities to stop "intimidating opponents" throughout the country. “The next president of Russia, whoever he is, will need to demonstrate that he is seriously configured to carry out reforms and put an end to the persecution of critics of power,” said the representative of the organization Hugh Williamson.