A total of six people were detained at a public gathering in St. Petersburg

At a people's gathering in St. Petersburg, held on the evening of December 12 near the building of the Constitutional Court on Senate Square in honor of the Day of the Russian Constitution, a total of six people were detained. This was reported in the group "Help for detainees in St. Petersburg."

According to activist Olga Smirnova, in addition to Yana Trubova and Igor Andreev, whose detention was previously reported , priest Alexander Khmelev, Georgy Zhukov and two more people were detained. Unlike the first detainees, they were taken not to the 1st, but to the 78th police department.

to According the Dozhd TV channel, police officers explained the detention of at least three people by the fact that the day before they had participated in an unsanctioned action in support of LGBT people (it was at this action that a journalist from the Kommersant newspaper was detained, who had previously suffered from the actions of NOD activists). As Aleksey Nazarov, one of the participants in the rally near the Constitutional Court, told Dozhd, the police said that this was evidenced by the photos and videos that the police have. Nazarov himself emphasized that the action that took place the day before was a walk and did not require prior approval.

UPD. According to the Alliance of Heterosexuals and LGBT for Equality, Alexander Khmelev, Irina Sigova and Georgy Zhukov are in the 78th police department.