Petersburg: The police detained the activist with the poster "fell silent"

In St. Petersburg, the police detained activist Nikita Zaretsky, who stood in a single picket in the center of the city with a poster "fell silent". Officially, the police detained him for violating the decision on measures to counteract the coronavirus, the Apology of Protest reports.

The police detained the activist despite the fact that the resolution of the administration of St. Petersburg says only about the ban on mass events.

Lawyer Alexander Porruk noted that under Russian legislation, when introducing an increased readiness regime, the introduced measures should not be the rights and freedoms of a citizen.

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Due to coronavirus in all regions of Russia, a regime of increased readiness has been introduced. The day before, officials recommended that tourists and Russian citizens abandon trips to St. Petersburg due to the threat of infection. According to official figures of Rospotrebnadzor, in Russia, 199 cases of infection with coronavirus are registered.