The Moscow City Court left Leonid Volkov under arrest

The Moscow City Court left under arrest for twenty days the head of the campaign headquarters of politician Navalny Leonid Volkov. On October 5, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow arrested Volkov for two tweets in which he allegedly urged him to come to uncoordinated rallies on October 7. about it Writes "Mediazona".

In court, Volkov emphasized that he himself did not write these tweets, since several people have access to his account. In addition, these are reposts, not author's messages: "Retweet does not mean approval, it is a desire to draw attention to an important text."

On October 5, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow arrested Leonid Volkov for twenty days for organizing a rally on October 7 on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow. The court found Volkov guilty of repeated violation of the rules for organizing a public action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Alexei Navalny, like Volkov, was arrested on October 2 in connection with the rally in Nizhny Novgorod, but the Moscow City Court rejected the politician's complaint and left him under arrest.