The court left in custody the coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Tatarstan

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan dismissed an appeal against the arrest of the coordinator of the Kazan campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny Elvira Dmitrieva. about this Writes "Idel. Realities". On Monday, Dmitrieva was arrested for 10 days.

She was found guilty under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event). Dmitrieva is accused of being the administrator of the group on the VKontakte social network “Team Navalny | Kazan”, on August 9, made the following post: “We call on all volunteers and supporters to come to our headquarters (Moskovskaya, 42) for newspapers and leaflets. Go out with them to the streets of the city, take your friends with you and distribute these - not at all extremist - materials!

According to law enforcement officers, in this way, Dmitrieva “organized a public campaign on the Internet among an unlimited circle of people with calls to take part in an unapproved public event from 08/09/2017.”

In court, the girl pleaded not guilty. Lawyer Irina Gontsova stated that there were no offenses in the actions of her client and asked the court to close the case.

Prior to this, on August 23, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism detained Elvira Dmitrieva. The head of the headquarters was accused of illegal distribution of leaflets.

On the same day, the court arrested Dmitrieva for 10 days for repeated violation of the rules for holding a public action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On August 25, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan released the coordinator of the Kazan headquarters and sent the case back for a new trial.