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Police in Saratov are preventing a rally-meeting with Navalny
In Saratov, the police are preventing a rally-meeting with Alexei Navalny in every possible way. At night, the organizers of the meeting were detained, the police called the equipment for the stage stolen and confiscated it, and a cargo with paraphernalia of the politician's election campaign was detained at the airport. Navalny's campaign staff write about this.
On the night of December 1, Alexander Tagirov, coordinator of Aleksey Navalny's headquarters, and Vyacheslav Gimadi, lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, were detained in Saratov. about it writes Meduza . According to the publication, they were detained during the installation of equipment for a meeting with Navalny.
In addition to the headquarters staff, the police detained the contractors who mounted the stage. The police later released everyone except the contractors. Gimadi said that according to the police, the equipment for the stage “looks like stolen goods” and should be seized. He also reported that a lawyer was not allowed to see the detainees at the police station.
Olga Guseva, coordinator of the People's Headquarters , wrote that a demining vehicle had arrived at the square where the meeting was planned.
Alexander Tagirov, Navalny's regional campaign manager , said that a shipment with campaign paraphernalia was blocked at the airport because it contained "extremist materials."
- On Friday, December 1, a meeting with politician Alexei Navalny is to take place in Saratov's Hyde Park.
- On Thursday, were detained the local coordinator of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Mikhail Murygin, and campaign volunteer Stanislav Votolin . To Murygin in the police department they did not allow a defense lawyer.
- The administration of Saratov rejected 2018 notifications of holding a rally-meeting with Alexei Navalny. In order to submit such a large number of applications, a special computer program was developed that generated notifications about pickets on various streets of Saratov at different times.