The leader of the Association of Carriers of Russia was taken away from a special detention center in an unknown direction

The leader of the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR), Andrei Bazhutin, who was serving 15 days of administrative arrest, was not released from the special detention center on Zakharyevskaya Street and was taken away in a police car. This was announced by OPR coordinator Anatoly Shilov.

OVD-Info December 12, Bazhutin court sentenced to 15 days for driving without a license. On Tuesday he was supposed to be released from the special detention center, however, according to Shilov, Bazhutin was not allowed to go out into the street, but was put in a police car and, accompanied by two traffic police cars, was “taken away.”

arrested somewhere - Bazhutin has been deprived of his rights for six months “for political reasons”, protests against the WHSD (Western High-Speed ​​Diameter - a toll highway in St. Petersburg). because of- On the day of his arrest, bailiffs came to Bazhutin in the morning in connection with an unpaid fine of 30 thousand rubles “for organizing a strike.” According to Bazhutin, he was detained by employees of the Center for Combating Extremism, and the entire detention was a “planned operation.”

• From December 15 to 25, the Association of Russian Carriers plans to hold an all-Russian strike of truckers against the Platon system.