Police in St. Petersburg detained an activist of the YaGrazhdanin project due to a report of an offense

In St. Petersburg, near the Finlyandsky railway station, the police detained the underage editor of the project "Yagrazhdanin". This was reported to OVD-Info by the detainee himself.

According to him, the police explained the detention by the received statement about the offense. At the same time, the law enforcement officers did not explain the essence of the statement, they only named the number under which it was registered in the register of reports on crimes and offenses (KUSP).

Now the detainee is in the linear police department near the Finland Station. Public defender Vladimir Vasilenko came to his aid from OVD-Info.

23:19 A mother and a lawyer came to the detainee, they were allowed into the department. The defender from OVD-Info Vladimir Vasilenko is not let through.

23:29 According to the detainee, at the last moment the policemen changed their minds about letting the lawyer in and let only the mother in.

June 28 00:44. The detainee was released without a protocol, he said in the legal bot OVD-Info.

• The police detained the activist on June 23, when he and two other activists were taking leaflets against changing the Constitution from the printing house.