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The court arrested a volunteer from Navalny's headquarters for eight days for a single picket
The Station District Court of Tula gave eight days of administrative arrest to Nikolai Mironov, a volunteer at Alexei Navalny’s election headquarters, for a single picket. The local political team tweeted about this.
reported He was charged with Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code - holding an event without filing a notification in the prescribed manner. The meeting lasted more than five hours. During testimony, the police said that they knew who they were going to detain.
Nikolai Mironov on the afternoon of October 29, when he stood in a single picket with a poster “No to political repression.” Two provocateurs approached the volunteer, and then employees of Center “E”, who called the police service. The provocateurs were detained but released almost immediately. Mironov was taken to the Privokzalny police station and from there to the court. According to the coordinator of Navalny’s Tula headquarters, Dmitry Nikolaev, employees of Center “E” filmed the picket and detention on camera. “Judging by the materials of the case, the administration forwarded information about a possible uncoordinated event to the Center for Combating Extremism,” Nikolaev reports.
He said that the other two “detainees” were not questioned in court. In addition, this is the first administrative case against Mironov, the coordinator said.