Open Russia activist Dmitry Semenovsky was detained in Pskov

In Pskov, men who introduced themselves as members of the criminal investigation department detained Dmitry Semenovsky, an Open Russia activist, reports . Pskovskaya Guberniya

According to the publication, Semenovsky was not told the reason for the detention. He was taken to 48 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, where the departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB for the Pskov region are located.

The chairman of Open Russia, Andrey Pivovarov , told 7×7 that Semenovsky received a call from the police before his arrest:

They said they wanted to talk about the fact of his appeal to the police: he wrote a statement a long time ago, a year ago, about the beating. He got into the car with them, he was detained, and since then communication with him has disappeared. Our lawyers do it. He was told that the department would inform about the reasons for the detention. We keep the situation under control, now lawyers will figure out what it is.

UPD 22:00 In the Pskov province telegram channel , they wrote that Semenovsky has not been in contact for six hours, relatives and friends do not know where the man is.

“His brother said that he [Semenovsky - OVD-Info ] left the house for five minutes almost in slippers and managed to report the arrest and that he was being taken to Oktyabrsky Prospekt, 48. After that, his phone was switched off” , the channel says.

There is no information about Semenovsky in the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the department of the FSB in the Pskov region, and there is not a single detainee in the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Pskov, the publication reports.

“Everyone is well aware that in recent months Semenovsky has been in close contact with the Milushkins and, it seems, participated in all their latest actions. There is reason to believe that he may be interrogated with prejudice with a demand to give some evidence against them, ”the Pskovskaya Gubernia notes.

• in Pskov were detained On January 17 , Lia Milushkina, coordinator of the regional branch of Open Russia, and her husband Artem Milushkin . They were accused of selling drugs - Artyom was arrested until March 15, Leah was placed under house arrest. In court, Milushkin said: “A custom-made political case. I do not consider myself guilty, I did not sell drugs. I organized a rally, and they promised to plant drugs on me.”