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Date
10/06/2018
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OVD-Info
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Activists of the “Unlimited Protest” in Moscow wanted to film a video message. They were detained

In Moscow, Georgy Kovalev, a participant in the Indefinite Protest, was detained on the observation deck of Zaryadye Park. This was reported to OVD-Info by Sergey Ozhich.

has been published on Sergey Ozhich's page A live broadcast . On it, a police officer can be heard saying, “Come on the bus with us. Now we will find out what happened, on what basis you distribute ... leaflets.

According to the coordinator of the "Indefinite Protest" Sofya Kardash, the participants of the action stood with the text for the video message and were not going to hand out leaflets. “We were going to record a video message to the entire opposition, we gathered on the observation deck, the police came, and began to ask what we were distributing here,” the OVD-Info activist said. Then Kovalev was detained and taken to a paddy wagon.

Then, according to Gleb Sakharov, a member of the Indefinite Protest and an eyewitness, a correspondent from Sota. Vision" by Sergei Zolotarev. He filmed the detention of Kovalev.

UPD 13:59 Indefinite Protest activists Daniil Latyshev and Vyachelava were detained near Bolotnaya Square. Now they are in the police bus. There is no connection with them. Sofya Kardash, coordinator of the Indefinite Protest, told OVD-Info about this.

Prior to this, Kardash reported that after the detention of Kovalev and Zolotarev, police officers wanted to detain other activists as well.

UPD 16:30 All the detainees were taken to the Yakimanka police department. First they brought in Daniil Latyshev. They took 500 leaflets from his backpack, which he prepared for distribution in the evening. According to the activist, the police said they wanted to charge all the detainees with distributing “extremist leaflets” and that he could face a fine of up to 10,000 rubles.

UPD 19:10 Everyone was released from the department with an obligation to appear, Sophia Kardash said.