Nikolai Lyaskin was arrested for 15 days

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow arrested Nikolai Lyaskin, an employee of the federal headquarters of Alexei Navalny, for 15 days. Lyaskin himself talks about this on Twitter.

wrote He was charged with repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event under Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code, reports the “Protest Moscow” telegram. The reason for opening a case against Lyaskin was his message on Twitter about the “Voter Strike,” as he himself said about it.

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Nikolai Lyaskin a day earlier before the “Voter Strike” and was taken to the police department in the Izmailovsky district. In the evening, a supporter of Navalny.

detained, released As lawyer Tatyana Solomina, who represented Lyaskin’s interests, said, at the trial the police officer who drew up the report admitted that all the information necessary for opening a case was sent to her from the Center for Combating Extremism, and she only filled out the report.

The OVD-Info police officer, according to Solomina, was forced to admit that Lyaskin did not organize an unapproved event, as she initially claimed. She said that Lyaskin held the event, despite the fact that the activist was detained an hour and a half before it started in another part of the city. The police officer eventually accused Lyaskin of “organizing the conscription.”