A Navalny headquarters volunteer detained in Saratov was released from the police department

Volunteer of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Saratov, Stanislav Votolin, who was detained on November 30, was released from the police department without a protocol being drawn up. This is reported by the news agency Svobodnye Novosti.

The activist was detained while handing out leaflets about Navalny's arrival in Saratov. was also detained Headquarters coordinator Mikhail Murygin . He was released , ordered to come to the police department on Monday to draw up a protocol under Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for organizing or holding a rally).

Murygin told the agency that he was taken to court, but before the hearing it turned out that no one had signed the protocol drawn up against him. The activist was charged with part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event). Murygin said that he was kept in the police department for five hours.

“After five o’clock they gave me to sign the detention protocol, it says two hours less, as required by law – three hours. After that, we abruptly went to court. A protocol on the offense was not drawn up. And in court, when it turned out, they said: You refused to paint. I said, "No, I don't refuse." He asked to invite witnesses that I was delivered, detained, and the protocol was not signed by anyone - neither witnesses nor attesting witnesses. I wrote in the protocol that I do not agree, I see the protocol on the offense for the first time and I demand the admission of a lawyer. Thanks to this mistake, they let me go,” the coordinator said.