The coordinator of “Voice” was detained in Cheboksary. The police thought he was acting strangely

At the railway station in Cheboksary, the police detained Alexander Grezev, the coordinator of the Golos observers. about this Writes "Idel. Realities".

The officers checked his documents and took him to the police room at the station, the coordinator said. According to Grezev, when asked about the reason for the detention, the police said that he was behaving strangely. The police checked the activist's personal belongings, wrote down the serial numbers of his mobile phone and laptop, and "punched them through the system."

“Having found out that the things were not stolen, they let me go after half an hour. I asked for a protocol of detention, but they refused to give it to me, ”the Voice coordinator told the publication.

Alexander Grezev came to Chuvashia for by-elections. He was going to control the voting process.

• In February 2018, Grezev was detained at the municipal elections in the Voronezh region. Then the police considered that Grezev and another observer, Vladimir Yegorov, were interfering with the work of the commission. Then Yegorov was arrested for a day, and Grezev was released without a protocol.