The coordinator of Navalny's headquarters was detained in Tula

Tula police detained activists from the local election headquarters of Alexei Navalny, reports . OVD-Info

The police stopped the car in which the headquarters coordinator Dmitry Nikolaev and a volunteer were traveling to the agreed picket. They were taken to the Soviet police department and their phones were taken away.

In addition, in Novomoskovsk, Tula Region, volunteer Nikita Reutsky was detained at an agreed picket.

Before Navalny’s “propaganda cleanup” on July 8-9, security forces seized campaign materials from headquarters throughout the country. In Tula, the police stopped Nikolaev’s car and took away the leaflets without documents or protocol.

Updated July 17 at 11:10 am. On the same day, all detainees were released .