The police came home to the activist, who placed the cardboard figure of Ilya Azar
The police came to the apartment at the address of the registration of one of the founders of the Metropitege Metropicket, the police came, said the OVD-info Pletnev.
According to the manager, said Pletnev, the police officer wanted to talk with the “boy of 2002”.
On May 31, Pletneva was detained after he put the cardboard figure of journalist Ilya Azar in the metro. They wanted to draw up a protocol for the transport of oversized cargo, but was released from the police department without a protocol.
Cardboard figure of Ilya Azara / Photo provided by Mikhail Pletnev
Today, several cardboard figures of Azar appeared at different points of Moscow: near the building of the Council of Deputies of Khamovnikov, at the Tverskaya police department, at the Tver court, near the city hall, at the Moscow City Duma, and in the evening at the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where single pickets were held in support of Ilya Azar.
On May 28, Ilya Azar, journalist and municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district, was arrested for 15 days for a picket in support of the author of the public Police Ombudsman and in support of the activist Nemetov, detained for the same picket. Azara was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On the same day, journalists and activists went to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in support of Ilya Azar. InMoscow, 22 people were detained at the GIF -Petersburg State Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and St. Petersburg . The next day, May 29, activists in different cities went to single pickets with the slogans “Picket Not a Crime”, “Freedom Ilya Azar”. According to the ATS-INFO, 42 people were detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg. On single pickets on May 30, 15 people were detained in support of Azar in Moscow. Activists went to pickets on June 1.