Moscow City Hall refused to resolve the rally on August 3

The Moscow City Hall did not agree on a rally of the Libertarian Party, trying to register a protest on Saturday, August 3. This was announced by Open Media by the party chairman Sergei Boyko.

According to him, they did not agree to reach the Sakharov Avenue proposed by officials and insisted on holding the campaign in front of the city hall, on Lubyanka or on New Arbat. In connection with the refusal of the authorities, they withdrew an application for a rally.

Earlier it was reported that the head of the Libertarian Party Mikhail Svetov, the head of the City Hall, went to negotiations with representatives of the city hall. Later, his associates reported the failure of negotiations, and soon also about the detention of Svetov himself.

Directly after the negotiations on the rally, at the exit from the Moscow government building, Mikhail Svetov @Msvetov was detained. They put them on the bus and taken away in an unknown direction.

- Alexander Goode (@goode108) July 30, 2019

The day before, the terms of administrative arrest were received by 40 people, including unregistered candidates for the Moscow City Duma Ilya Yashin and Konstantin Yankauskas. They were placed in a special detention center for 20 and 7 days, respectively.

According to human rights defenders, the police and the Russian Guard detained 1373 people on shares in support of independent candidates on July 27, more than 200 of which held two nights in the departments. More than seventy protest participants were injured.

On July 30, the deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Alexander Buppman, said at a meeting of the department of the department that prosecutors need to “stiffen” the actions of the organizers of inconsistent rallies. In his opinion, "recent events in Moscow dictate the need to" change the prosecutor's approach to supervision of the elections.