Irkutsk: Ex-coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny was arrested for 30 days

The ex-coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny in Irkutsk Sergey Bespalov today arrested the court for 30 days. He was recognized as the organizer of a rally against a pension reform, which was not agreed with the Irkutsk Cityria and passed on September 9. Then more than three hundred people entered the main square of the city. A civilian activist received the maximum punishment provided for by the Code of Administrative Offenses. He intends to appeal this decision.

“They consider me the organizer, I do not consider myself the organizer. We have the same dispute as usual. According to their version, since I wrote on Facebook that I was going to the rally and told my friends“ come ”and at the event was the first to take the Megaphone, that means that I am already the organizer of this action,” Sergey Bespalov said Siberia. Realii.

During the court hearing, the police lieutenant colonel Oleg Bobrov said that he wrote a report on Sergei Bespalov to attract him under a criminal article for a public insult to a representative of the authorities. According to the opposition, they are trying to blame him for allegedly expressed obscenely against the policeman.

Bespalov headed the Irkutsk headquarters of Navalny a little over a year. From September 1, he relieved his powers, but said that he would be an ordinary volunteer and continue to participate in public protest events.

On September 9, on a single voting day, the supporters of Alexei Navalny held the All -Russian protest against raising the retirement age. The detentions and arrests on the eve of the All -Russian protest rally took place in different regions of Russia. The police detained the organizers of the events in Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Kuzbass. During the action in Siberia, according to the headquarters of Navalny, about 100 people were detained.

In mid -July, the State Duma of Russia approved in the first reading a government bill on a gradual increase in retirement age to 65 years for men and up to 63 years for women. Pension reform has already caused protests in dozens of cities of Russia, and sociological services recorded a decrease in the rating of Vladimir Putin. The head of state proposed to reduce the age of retirement for women under 60 years of age, as well as provide for the right to early exit for many children and introduce responsibility for the dismissal of people of pre -retirement age.