In Penza, a video blogger was arrested for 10 days

Yevgeny Shirmanov, a video blogger and activist of the Saratov-OFDPS-Shirmanov community on the social network Vkontakte, received ten days of arrest in Penza for petty hooliganism, correspondent Kasparov reported on August 19. Ru.

On the evening of August 15, Evgeny was detained on Lenin Square, where he was supposed to meet with community subscribers. The topic of the meeting was corruption in the traffic police, about 50 people came to talk with the blogger. At the time when Shirmanov was talking to the visitors, unknown people approached them and unfurled posters on which it was written: "We are against corruption."

People with cameras immediately appeared, began to record what was happening, and then the police arrived and detained Shirmanov and provocateurs, but took them to different places, Shirmanov's friend Igor Goryunov told reporters. According to the Penza department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Saratov activist and several other people were detained for petty hooliganism after the police allegedly received complaints about young people “behaving provocatively on Lenin Square and not responding to comments.”