In Irkutsk, the court arrested the organizer of a closed meeting with Alexei Navalny for 7 days

The Sverdlovsky District Court of Irkutsk arrested the coordinator of the local campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Sergei Bespalov, for seven days. against him and Dmitry Tolmachev On November 16 , a protocol was drawn up for organizing a public event without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported in the group “Team Navalny | Irkutsk.

The trial was held behind closed doors.

The police considered the meeting of politician Alexei Navalny a rally. At the same time, the organizers emphasize that the meeting was held in a limited mode: admission to it was possible only upon presentation of a ticket, and the event itself was held on private territory. The organizers decided to restrict entry to the meeting after "forty refusals from the mayor's office of Irkutsk to coordinate the rally at municipal sites."