Coordinator and volunteer of Navalny’s local headquarters detained in Saratov

In Saratov on the afternoon of October 9, police detained the coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, Mikhail Murygin, and volunteer Andrei Kopshev. about this on Twitter wrote Sergei Okunev, an activist of the Artpodgotovka movement, . Okunev writes that the detention is connected with the last action of Navalny's supporters on October 7th. The police blocked the entrance to Navalny's headquarters and the street where the premises are located.

Murygin and Kopshev were the organizers of a local rally in support of Navalny on 7 October. They did not receive an official response from the authorities to the submitted notice of the event, but they decided to hold the action.

UPD 16:34 The detainees were taken to police station No. 6 of the Frunzensky district of Saratov. leave in OVD No. 6 until the morning. With the help of Oblast Duma deputies Alexander Anidalov and Nikolai Bondarenko, things, food and water were handed over.

UPD. 18:20 About twenty-five supporters of the detainees have gathered near the police department, holding alternate pickets. No one is allowed into the police department or even nearby, the area is cordoned off.

“There was every reason to believe that they would be detained. This is our feature of the Saratov police: at events they never detain anyone, and after that - everyone. Mikhail already spoke about this with a certain confidence and chose which book to read in the reception center,” Okunev told Open Russia.