Yashin was detained in Kostroma during a meeting with voters

In Kostroma, police officers and FSB detained Parnas Deputy Chairman Ilya Yashin during a meeting with voters. He reports this on his page.

“The police officer and the FSB operative came to the next meeting with voters in Kostroma. They twisted my hands, shoved me into the car and transported to the police department,” writes Yashin. - draw up a detention protocol under Art. 19.3 Administrative Code, they want to close for 15 days. The task is understandable: to disrupt the Parnassus election campaign in Kostroma. "He is accused of non -fulfilling the requirements of the police officer to hold a meeting without using sound -based equipment.

“Such an election campaign is with us. The leader of the list Ilya Yashin was just detained directly at a meeting with voters. Yashin came to detain both the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. The threat of security is: a person walks along the streets of Kostroma and tells about the Rotenberg business,” the leader of the progress party, Alexei Navalny, commented on the detention. “They will also put the leader of the list for 15 days, and then they will say: then: The opposition was poorly opposed to the campaign, she did not meet with voters, they are far from the people. "

“The cops squeezed out the property of the headquarters at the group of meetings - columns, racks, mixer and wires. Type of“ Crime tool ”,” said Leonid Volkov, head of the demos headquarters of the Democratic Republic.

Yashin was kept in the police for more than three hours. It drew up a protocol on an administrative offense. Then Yashin was released, explaining that they would call the court a trip. After liberation, Yashin went to the next meeting with voters

The detention of Ilya Yashin. Video report by Alexandra Ageeva

On August 14, the election commission of the Kostroma region registered a list of Parnassus, on which the candidates of the democracy are nominated. The day before, the Central Election Commission granted Parnas’s complaint about the refusal of the Kostroma Oblazbirkom in registration of the party list. Thus, the Kostroma region remains the only region where the demoralization continues the election campaign.

On the night of July 29, who managed the headquarters of the Demo Academy in Kostroma Andrei Pivovarov and police captain Alexei Nikonorovwas detained by police operatives . Pivovarov wanted to check the signatures of voters on the basis of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was charged with unlawful access to information and inciting to abuse of authority. On July 31, Yashin announced that Nikonorov, who was accused of excess of official authority, admitted a confrontation with a politician that he had stipulated him under the pressure of the operatives . “The criminal case against Pivovarov is obvious political and custom in nature,” Yashin emphasized.

On August 11, the Memorial human rights center recognized Pivovarov as political prisoner and demanded that Immediately free him and Nikonorov, "became a hostage to the politically motivated criminal prosecution of Pivovarov."

After the decision of the election commission on registration of the list, Volkov became the chief of the pre -election headquarters of the Demo Academy in Kostroma. Previously, he headed the headquarters in Novosibirsk, where the demo -abandonment refused to register the list.

On August 12, the Novosibirsk Directorate of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Volkov under part 3 of Article 144 of the Criminal Code (obstruction of the legal professional activity of journalists with damage to their property). Lifenews employee Alexander Presnings states that on July 17, Volkov allegedly attacked him and damaged the microphone.

On August 13, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the falsification of subscription sheets to participate in the elections in the Novosibirsk Region "unidentified persons from among authorized representatives of the electoral association of the regional branch" Parnas.

On Monday, in the case of an attack on Lifenews employee , Volkov was charged . The politician took the recognizance not to leave. According to its conditions, he can stay in the territories of the Novosibirsk or Kostroma regions, as well as traveling in Moscow.