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A truck driver strike participant detained near St. Petersburg was arrested for 9 days
On December 15, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Alexander Rastorguev, a member of PARNAS and a participant in a truckers' strike, for nine days for organizing an October 7 rally in support of Alexei Navalny. about it . writes Fontanka
He was charged with part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of a public event without filing a notification), despite the fact that the St. Petersburg City Court overturned the decision of the Smolninsky court and declared illegal the refusal to approve the headquarters of the Navalny rally on October 7.
Rastorguev was detained the day before. From the police department he was taken to the hospital twice.
The activist believes that he was arrested so that he could not participate in the strike of truckers, which began today.