The prosecutor's office in Chuvashia declared the detention of the Open Russia coordinator illegal

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Chuvashia admitted that the detention of the local coordinator of Open Russia, Dmitry Semyonov, was illegal. about this Writes "Idel. Realities". We are talking about January 17, the day the police detained a man at a bus stop.

According to the publication, neither a protocol on the offense nor a protocol on the delivery of the activist that day was drawn up.

“By studying the material of the check, it was established that in violation of Part 3 of Art. 27.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, protocols for the delivery, administrative offense, detention against you were not drawn up, in connection with which it was decided to submit a proposal to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the city of Cheboksary to eliminate violations of federal law, ”the agency’s response to the activist’s complaint says.

Semyonov told the publication that he was discussing with lawyers the possibility of a lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Affairs to recover moral damages for illegal detention.

• On January 17, Dmitry Semyonov was detained at a bus stop when he was getting off a trolleybus. At the police station, the police admitted to Semyonov that they had detained him "by order from above." A few hours later, he was accused of possessing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and the #StopPutin stickers were confiscated for examination.
• As Semyonov clarified in a conversation with OVD-Info, then the police only drew up a protocol for the removal of stickers. The CEC of the republic conducted an examination and recognized them as illegal campaign materials. Later, the stickers were returned to Semyonov, but no protocol was drawn up for him.
• On January 17, police detained members of the Open Russia movement in Cheboksary, Ulyanovsk, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Tambov, Tver, Veliky Novgorod, and Penza. They were charged with murder, robbery and arson of cars, possession of extremist materials, organization of an uncoordinated action and damage to campaign materials. As a result, everyone was released from the police departments.