Riot police detained member of the Libertarian Party Mikhail Svetov

OMON detained a member of the Libertarian Party, Mikhail Svetov. about this on Twitter . Sergey Boyko, chairman of the Federal Committee of the Libertarian Party, wrote

The detention took place immediately after negotiations with the mayor's office of Moscow about the action on August 3 in support of independent candidates for deputies to the Moscow City Duma. Svetov wrote that officials refused to consider other sites except Sakharov Avenue. “Then the situation is not in our hands,” the politician wrote .

Prior to this, the Libertarian Party filed a notice of a rally in Lubyanka, but the mayor's office offered to hold it on Sakharov Avenue. To this, Mikhail Svetov stated that "it is impossible to return to Sakharov after what happened on Saturday."

17:05 A protocol is drawn up against Svetov under the article on the repeated violation of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported on the telegram channel of the Libertarian Party (LPR).

According to the lawyer of the "Apology of Protest" Grigory Chervonny, to whom the LPR refers, the broadcast of the protests on July 27 became the formal reason for initiating the case.

• At the rally "Allow!" On July 27 were detained , 256 of them spent the night at the police station. , according to OVD-Info, 1,373 people