The police refused to issue lawyers with reports on the picketers detained near Petrovka

Police officers of the Tagansky police department refused to provide lawyers with protocols for detainees during solitary pickets near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Petrovka. Mikhail Biryukov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports this.

Municipal deputy Andrei Morev was invited on June 3 to the police department to redraw the protocol in connection with his detention on May 29 at Petrovka. His lawyer Mikhail Biryukov came instead. He asked to get acquainted with the protocols drawn up on his client, as well as on the Mundeps detained at the action, Yulia Galyamina and Elena Rusakova. The police refused to give the lawyer any documents, saying that they would send everything by mail.

Grigory Chervonny, a lawyer from the Apology of Protest, came to the Taganskoye police department with the same demand, but they also did not show him the documents for his clients. It is not known whether protocols were drawn up on the detainees at all.

“We, as lawyers, enjoy the same rights in full as a person brought to administrative responsibility. Accordingly, we have the right to get acquainted with all the materials of the case and receive copies of the protocols, we were denied this,” Biryukov told OVD-Info.

• On May 29, 2020, pickets were held in several cities of Russia in support of previously detained activists and journalists, in particular, journalist Ilya Azar, who was placed under administrative arrest in connection with an action for the release of Vladimir Vorontsov, the author of the “Police Ombudsman” public, and Viktor Vorontsov, who was detained earlier for a similar action Nemytova. in Moscow and St. Petersburg . were detained At least 42 people