Lawyer: police beat the wife of the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Sochi

During a search in Sochi, police beat Tatyana Zykova, the wife of Konstantin Zykov, coordinator of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny. about this on his Facebook page . wrote Alexander Popkov, a lawyer for the international human rights group Agora,

The day before the presidential election, police detained the couple. On the same day, the Central District Court arrested Konstantin for three days for disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). The next day, the same court fined Tatyana one thousand rubles under the same administrative article.

Supporters of the oppositionist wrote in the group “Team Navalny | Sochi” that before the arrest, the police carried out an inspection in the Zykovs’ apartment and “broke all the furniture, confiscated all documents and equipment.”

Popkov clarified on Facebook that Zykova was fined for disobeying the police during an inspection of her own apartment.

“A huge big guy lieutenant colonel grabbed tiny Tanya by the clothes and hit her against the wall. And when the girl began to panic, cry and call for help, these sadists threw her face down on the concrete floor. She began to choke and scream, for which they stepped on her feet and pressed their heels on her toes to keep her silent,” the lawyer wrote.