Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was detained on Monday at the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow during the announcement of sentences for those involved in the Bolotnaya case, said that he was released from court. According to Navalny, he was brought back from the police department to the Zamoskvoretsky court, but the judge did not accept the documents drawn up against him.

The oppositionist added that his phone was returned to him and that he had already left the court.

Navalny was detained at the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow even before the verdict in the “Bolotnaya case” was announced. After the arrest, he reported that he was being taken somewhere alone in a paddy wagon, while all the other detainees, who were in the same paddy wagon, were dropped off at the Krasnoselskoye police station. After some time, Navalny’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev reported that the oppositionist was taken to the Zamoskvorechye police station, where he “was forcibly taken away from his phone and wallet. He was charged with a violation under Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violating order at a mass rally), said Navalny’s press secretary Anna Veduta .

Oppositionist Ilya Yashin was also detained at the Zamoskvoretsky court. He said that the police department was drawing up a report against him under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to a lawful order of a police officer), which provides for up to 15 days of arrest. “The policeman happily announced that I was being kept at the police department until the trial, which will take place tomorrow,” Yashin wrote on his Twitter.

Navalny was released from court