In Moscow, an activist was detained near the special detention center where the author of “Protest MSU” is serving his arrest.

In Moscow, civil activist Matvey Aleksandrov was detained near special detention center No. He himself informed OVD-Info about this.

The detainee is being taken to the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki police station.

As Alexandrov writes in his Telegram channel, they plan to draw up a protocol against him under the article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

00:15 Aleksandrov was released from the department, he writes in his telegram channel.

• On August 3, the Khamovnichesky District Court found Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Protest MSU telegram channel, guilty under an article on repeated violation of the rules for participation in a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court arrested him for 13 days.
• Dmitry Ivanov was detained on August 1 near the Khamovniki police station, where a civil activist came to support those detained at a Moscow rally in support of protesters in Khabarovsk. The reason for the detention of Ivanov was that the policeman asked him to pick up a package unknown to him, but he refused, asking the law enforcement officer to introduce himself. In the department, a protocol was drawn up against the author of the “Protest MGU” under part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses because of the action on March 14.
• On March 14, a series of solitary pickets against political repressions took place in Moscow near the FSB building. According to OVD-Info, about 50 people were detained during the protests. We published a list of detainees.