In St. Petersburg, a municipal deputy was detained due to a protest against changing the Constitution • OVD-Info • RIMA

In St. Petersburg, a municipal deputy was detained due to a protest against changing the Constitution

In St. Petersburg, a municipal deputy of the city of Pushkin, Sergei Lazarev, was detained near the house, according to the coordinator of the programs, Ivan Ostapchuk.

The police detained Lazarev in connection with a rally against changes to the Constitution, which took place on July 15 on Malaya Sadovaya Street. He is being taken to the 28th police department in the Central District of St. Petersburg.

14:13 Vladimir Vasilenko, a public defender from OVD-Info, came to Sergei Lazarev, according to the project's legal aid coordinator Anna Romashchenko.

16:32 Sergei Lazarev is taken to the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg, he is charged with violating the rules for participating in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Vladimir Vasilenko, a public defender from OVD-Info, is traveling with Lazarev, Anna Romashchenko, project legal aid coordinator, reports.

20:48 The Kuibyshevsky District Court imposed a fine of 12,000 rubles on Lazarev. He was found guilty of violating the rules for participation in a mass event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the defender from OVD-Info Vladimir Vasilenko.

On July 15, protests were held in several cities against changing the Constitution. They detained 147 people. We were online .
On March 11, the State Duma approved the draft law on amendments to the Constitution, initiated by Vladimir Putin. Before that, the President supported the amendment of Deputy Valentina Tereshkova, who proposed to give the President the opportunity to run for two new terms after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. Sobyanin called the ban on Putin being elected "a destabilizing factor." The amendments are planned to be approved at a nationwide vote, the main stage of which took place on July 1, 2020.
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