Lawyers are not allowed to see those detained at protests against Telegram blocking

A lawyer is not allowed to see detainees at protests against blocking Telegram. This was reported to OVD-Info by Stepan Vyboch. In addition, he said that the police want to inspect everyone without witnesses.

The detainees are in the Meshchansky police department, there are 12 of them: Lyudmila Sukova, Alexander Sofeev, Heinrich Von Desteo, Stepan Vyboch, Lyudmila Kostenko, Dmitry Tsorionov (Enteo), former member of Pussy Riot and founder of Mediazona Maria Alyokhina, Alisa Gordeeva, Egor Ermeev, Olga, Alina and one more person.

Previously, the police said that they leave people at the police station overnight. They took explanatory notes from the detainees and told them that protocols would be drawn up against them under part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of an uncoordinated public event).

Vyboch wrote a complaint against the actions of the police officers.

UPD 23:20 Phones were confiscated from the detainees and put in cells.

UPD 23:25 only four people remained outside the cells. This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the detainees.

UPD April 17 It became known that 13 people were detained at the rally, among them Sofya Trofimova, a participant in the MBKh Media project. about this She wrote on her Twitter. Her phone was also taken from her.

• On Friday, April 13, the Tagansky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Roskomnadzor and ruled to block the Telegram messenger in Russia.
• Today it was planned to hold a paper airplane event in the center of Moscow. “The decision to block telegram is a direct suppression of our constitutional right to privacy of correspondence. Tomorrow, April 16 at 18:00, we will go from the Solovetsky stone and together we will launch paper airplanes, ” wrote Alyokhina in the event group. A paper plane is the logo of a banned messenger.