The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow arrested for seven days a 25-year-old activist of the “People's Resistance Association” Anastasia Zinovkin for an action against the law on the autonomous Internet (part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), ANS activist Dmitry Karasev told Mediazone. The protesters blocked the road with a banner with the inscription "State Duma to resign."
The protocol on the administrative violation, which is at the disposal of the editorial office, states that in the evening of February 15, Zinovkin and nine more activists stretched a black banner on the road with the inscription “State Duma to resign” and passed from Rusakovskaya street to Stramynka Street.
The participants in the action blocked the road to the cars and began to shout the slogans: “State Duma resigned”, “government resignation”, “for free Internet” and “totalitarianism will not pass”. The video from the action shows that during the procession, activists used smoke fires.
Another ANS activist Maria Nekrasov was detained today, February 26, in her apartment and was taken to the Internal Affairs Directorate in the Eastern District, according to a public movement. According to ANS, its detention is associated with the same action in Sokolniki.
On February 21, the Preobrazhensky District Court arrested an activist of ANS Alexander Bimov for this action for this action. He was found guilty of repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event (part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the OVD-Info reported.