Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov's arrest extended for 112 hours

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow extended the administrative arrest of the leader of the Left Front movement, Sergei Udaltsov, for 112 hours. This was reported on the activist's Facebook page.

The court added another 112 hours to Udaltsov's 30-day arrest, which he spent in the hospital due to a hunger strike. It is noted that the activist was there in the same conditions as in the special detention center: he had no means of communication and personal belongings, police officers watched him at the door of his chamber around the clock. In addition, law enforcement officers did not accept the transfer for the activist from his friend.

• Udaltsov went on a dry hunger strike on August 14 after the court arrested him for 30 days. During the hunger strike, the man was hospitalized three times . Ivan Melnikov, a member of the Public Monitoring Commission, reported that Udaltsov complained of pain in the kidneys, and on Twitter the politician wrote that the preliminary diagnosis made by the doctors was dehydration. On September 5, the activist ended his hunger strike due to poor health.
• Udaltsov was arrested for 30 days, charged under part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event). The reason for this was the "destruction of portraits of persons resembling state leaders" at a rally against the pension reform on July 28. On August 17, the Moscow City Court upheld the arrest.