The court dismissed the case against the drummer detained at the May 1 rally

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the administrative case against Mikhail Borisov. He was detained with a drum at the May Day demonstration, writes in his telegram channel "Apology of Protest".

The activist was detained before the start of the rally and a protocol was drawn up against him under an administrative article on violation of the procedure for holding a meeting (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses)

The case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.

• The first arrests at the actions of the first of May - even before the demonstrations began - began in St. Petersburg. By the middle of the day, local police broke through the column of protesters and began to detain random protesters.

in Russia that day, according to OVD-Info, many said that they had been beaten. were detained In total , 125 people