In St. Petersburg, police arrested a municipal deputy for 12 days

this The municipal deputy of the St. Petersburg district of the Sea Gate Daniil Ken was arrested for 12 days, the deputy himself managed to announce on his Twitter. Earlier, when trying to get a notification of his appointment as a member of the election commission, the police detained a man right in the TEC building.

According to Navalny's headquarters volunteers who reported the arrest, the TIK officers themselves pushed the observer out the door, and the chairman of the commission, Tkachenko, refused to accept his documents and personally called the police. After that, the man was taken to police station No. 20.

There, as the politician himself wrote , a protocol was drawn up against him under Part 1 of Art. 20.1 (petty hooliganism). On the same day, the Vyborgsky District Court, chaired by Judge Alevtina Kuznetsova, arrested the detainee for 12 days, rejecting Ken's request to postpone the meeting to another day in order to allow the deputy to take part in the work of the election commission, as well as to find a lawyer and witnesses.

Despite the “day of silence” announced on the eve of the presidential elections, numerous detentions of observers and volunteers of opposition movements took place throughout the country. The chronicle of detentions is conducted by OVD-Info.

UPD 6.38 As Daniil Ken reported on his Twitter, the handcuffs on his hands jammed, and he was taken to the Ministry of Emergency Situations in front of the detention center for a bite to eat.