The second Left Bloc activist detained in Barvikha was given 4 days of arrest

One of the Left Bloc activists detained on Saturday in Barvikha, Aliya Ziganshina, was given four days of administrative arrest for disobeying a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by Andrey Efanov.

UPD. 19:25 The court also arrested activist Anna Zaitseva for four days. She, like Ziganshina, agreed with the accusation. The term of arrest is counted from the moment of detention (September 23). Writes about this "Open Russia" with reference to its correspondent in the courtroom.

Efanov was present at the first part of the meeting on the Ziganshina case. According to him, the police officers who appeared in court gave very contradictory testimonies. One said that he detained the activists with two more police officers and that was it. Another said that in addition to three officers from one department, there were other police officers. Some of the policemen believe that they traveled “exactly a minute” from the department to the place of detention, while others counted “10-20 minutes”.

According to the police, the offense committed by the detained activists of the Left Bloc was that when law enforcement officers asked to show documents, the activists began to run away, thereby disobeying the lawful order of a representative of the authorities (19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The activists themselves said that they could not identify the people who approached them as police officers, because they did not introduce themselves and were dressed in civilian clothes.

During a break in the meeting, Efanov left the court building, but the bailiffs did not let him back, referring to the fact that the court was no longer working at the entrance. At the same time, one bailiff told another that in the morning “on this case” officers of the FSB arrived and gave instructions to the leadership of the court. Later, all people from the support group who did not have powers of attorney from the detainees were expelled from the court.

Left Bloc activists were detained when they tried to hold a direct action near elite cottages in Barvikha. All of them drew up protocols under Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer) and left pending trial in police departments.

Immediately after the arrest, a note about the incident appeared on the pro-Kremlin Anti-Maidan website. It said that the activists planned to block the Rublyovo-Uspenskoe highway with a banner and light flares. In addition, the publication contains photographs of activists lying on the pavement.

None of the detainees were given copies of the protocols in their hands. One of the activists saw the first page of his protocol, and remembered that the time of detention was indicated there - 15-20 on September 23. Accordingly, the term for the legal detention of activists ended today at twenty past three. Comrades of the detainees, who came to court to support them, informed the policeman about this fact and demanded that their friends be released. The police officer replied that all questions about the terms of detention would be decided by the court.