Lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation detained by SOBR while trying to help truckers

Armed SOBR fighters forcibly detained Vitaly Serukanov, a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Foundation and the Progressive Law project, and Artem Khmelevsky, a journalist with the newspaper Nash Sever, in a parking lot near the Mega shopping center in Khimki. Both of them were taken to the first police station in Khimki, where protesters against the Platon system detained earlier on November 11 are being held. During a conversation with OVD-Info, Serukanov's phone was taken away.

Serukanov and Khmelevsky were traveling from Moscow to provide legal assistance to the protesters who had been detained earlier. Before arriving at the police department, at the request of one of the detainees, Sergei Ainbinder, they drove into the parking lot near Mega to prevent the illegal evacuation of Ainbinder's car. The fact that the car left in the parking lot without any violations will be evacuated was reported to Ainbinder by the traffic police. Ainbinder himself, a member of the Professional Drivers' Union (MPVP), was the first to be arrested, on the morning of November 11, and during the arrest, the police did not allow him to turn off the engine and close the cars, as a result, he was forced to leave the car unlocked and with the key inside.

During the day, a protocol was not drawn up against Ainbinder either on detention or on an administrative offense. Protocols were not drawn up for the rest of the detainees, although the three-hour period established for this by law had long expired.

Including Serukanov and Khmelevsky, a total of twenty people were detained in Khimki. The four detained journalists managed to secure their release two hours after their arrest. The rest of the detainees were threatened with the initiation of a case on disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer - under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which provides for punishment of up to 15 days of arrest. In addition, one of the detainees, Olga Reznikova, was threatened to be left at the police station for 48 hours to determine her identity, since she did not have her passport with her.

The following is a complete list of detainees, grouped in order of detention:

1. Sergey Ainbinder, member of the trade union of professional drivers (MPVP);

2. IPVP member Ekaterina Borkov and Igor Melnikov from the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR);

3. head of the Moscow branch of the Association of Carriers of Russia Sergey Rudametkin, Sergey Verner, Olga Reznikova (they threaten to leave in the police department for identification for 48 hours), Roman Antipkin, Nikolai Kutsurov, Dmitry Lazarev, Mikhail Kurbatov, Elena Filippova, Ivan Gushchin, Denis Romanov (released), Novaya Gazeta correspondent Dmitry Rebrov (released) and two journalists from the Dozhd TV channel, Alexei Korostelev and Alexander Mikhailov (released);

4. Anna Tokareva and Vladimir Sinitsin;

5. FBK and Progressive Law lawyer Vitaly Serukanov and Nash Sever newspaper journalist Artem Khmelevsky.