Arresting Kuterma

The judge of the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow Oleg Kazantsev arrested for 20 days Leonid Volkov, the chief of the Federal Electoral Staff Alexei Navalny. This was announced by Volkov himself. The court made a decision on the night of Friday.

"Guilty: I posted two tweets with references to the publication of Navalny, which organized a rally on October 7 on Pushkin Square of the city of Moscow! - Volkov wrote from the courtroom. - Once again 20 days! Now from October 5."

Volkova was announced guilty of part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for organizing rallies). “What is charged to me is two tweets with links to Navalny’s message, which are the subjects of the public property,” Volkov said in court. “Twit means attracting attention to the text. It does not mean calling or consent.”

Volkov called what was happening "a uniform provocation from the" e "." I understand that the center of "E" has a hysteria, their task is to make me not in Moscow, "he said.

Volkov’s lawyer Ivan Zhdanov pointed to the court of procedural violations in the case. The defender also recalled the pregnancy of Volkov’s wife. Childbirth is expected in the next two weeks, so Zhdanov considers the arrest of politics unethical.

On Thursday, Volkov was detained four hours after the Moscow City Court canceled the decision of the Savelovsky District Court to arrest a politician for calls for a promotion in Nizhny Novgorod. He was delivered to the Preobrazhensky police department. A lawyer was not allowed to the detainee for a long time. First, the police told Volkov that they would take him to the court in Nizhny Novgorod, and then drew up a new protocol.

“I never felt like a bag of potatoes as today, to be honest. There, here ... they have a panic,” Volkov wrote . “We let them go, detained, go to Nizhny, we don’t go, we write the protocol, we don’t write, we leave for the night, we go to court. This is how the main idea looks like that they don’t come up with the court, and then they decided it in the lower one, but then decided it and then still Moscow Protocol ".

URGENTLY! Emergency video message @leonidvolkov from the Preobrazhenskoye Department of Internal Affairs. Retvit! #Zanavalny pic.twitter.com/2hr2difr4m

- Navalny team (@teamnavalny) October 5, 2017

On Thursday, the Moscow City Courtcanceled the decision on the 20-day administrative arrest of Volkov. His case was considered the unusual Savelovsky District Court of Moscow. The protocol was sent for consideration to the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod. The meeting was scheduled for October 9.

“I’ve been sitting in court for an hour and a half, I’m waiting for a copy of the decision (still). I won’t take a passport without it, which remained in the special receiver,” I wrote after the meeting of the wolves. “I don’t exclude that I will come to the special receiver for a passport and immediately leave with the escort to Nizhny Novgorod, I won’t be surprised today.”

On Tuesday, the Savelovsky district court arrested Volkov , announcing guilty under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for organizing rallies). In protest, Volkov declared a hunger strike. “Let us go, vile bitch, let us conduct a campaign normally,” he wrote on Twitter before sending to a special detention center.

The protocol on Volkov was issued for agitation to the Nizhny Novgorod rally with the participation of Navalny, scheduled for September 29. The action received approval, but at the last moment it was recalled. On the morning of the 29th, Navalny was detained in Moscow when he left the house to go to Nizhny.

The scene and equipment in Nizhny Novgorod was dismantled under the control of security forces. Volkov, who arrived in Nizhny Novgorod, filed an application with the police to prevent a public event, but he himself was detained along with three local functionaries of the headquarters. In the evening of the same day, Volkov was taken to the airport and released there.

On Thursday, the judge of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court Gleb Sveshnikov fined part 1 of Article 20.2 of the detainees with Volkov coordinator of the regional headquarters Anna Petkoglo for 20 thousand rubles, and activist Nikita Pavlova - for 15 thousand.

More than 500 protesters gathered at the site of the torn rally. They tried to conduct a procession, but the police prevented them. Seven oppositionists were detained. On Monday, two of them - Stanislav Dmitrievsky and Dmitry Kalinchev - were arrested for 14 and 12 days, respectively, in part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal requirement of the policeman). Navalny himself on October 2, like Volkov the next day, received 20 days of arrest on the same part 8 of Article 20.2 for the call to reach a rally in Nizhny Novgorod.

After the trial, the politician was calling for protesting shares throughout the country on October 7, on the birthday of Vladimir Putin.