In St. Petersburg, a human rights activist who arrived to provide legal assistance was detained at the police department

In St. Petersburg, human rights activist Ilya Tkachenko was detained near the police station. He's arriving at the department for legal assistance. Tkachenko himself told about this OVD-Info.

Tkachenko arrived at OP 1 to provide legal assistance to detained activist Olga Smirnova. When the defender left the department to buy Smirnova water and food, he was approached by police officers who reported a complaint against him to the KUSP (Incident Report Book).

The reason for the complaint was the participation of the human rights activist in the Strategy-18 picket in support of the Crimean Tatars on May 17. In order to draw up a protocol under the article on organizing an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Tkachenko was taken to OP 30. According to the activist himself, a protocol had already been drawn up against him for this action.

17:38 Ilya Tkachenko is left at the police station for the night, reports . the Agit Rossiya telegram channel

17:55 The phone is confiscated from the detainee, the legal bot OVD-Info was informed.