The second Kuban activist was released after 15 days of arrest for the cross on Dzerzhinsky

Krasnodar activist Viktor Chirikov, who was arrested for 15 days for erecting a cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, was released from the detention center on Sunday, January 8. This was announced by the artist Alexei Knedlyakovsky, who was released the day before after being arrested for the same action.

Chirikov was detained on December 24 and spent the night at the police station. The next day, he was taken to the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar, which found him guilty of "petty hooliganism" and, like Knedlyakovsky earlier, arrested him for the maximum possible term under this article - 15 days. The court session took place without a lawyer, and the main evidence of Chirikov's guilt was a photograph with two dark silhouettes, in which it is impossible to recognize Chirikov and Knedlyakovsky.

In the special detention center, Chirikov was in an 11-meter cell, where, in addition to him, first five, and then ten people were placed. On the phone, he reported that his cellmates were smoking, and the room was not ventilated. On December 28, it became known that an ambulance was called to the activist