In Moscow, an evicted worker with a blank sheet of paper was detained on Red Square

In Moscow, on Red Square, the evicted worker Georgy Kharchenko was detained, who went to a solo picket with an empty sheet of paper. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by Alexander Zimbovsky, a member of the Moscow Hostels movement.

The policemen took Kharchenko to the Kitay-Gorod police station. What offense he is charged with is currently unknown. It was not possible to get through to the picketer.

Zimbovsky clarified that the family of Georgy Kharchenko was forcibly evicted from the hostel.

15:14 The senior lawyer of OVD-Info consulted the detainee. The police have not yet explained under what article they are going to draw up a protocol.

15:57 The police are charging Georgy Kharchenko with an article on non-compliance with the “high alert regime” (Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Alexander Zimbovsky said.

16:31 Georgy Kharchenko left the police department with a protocol under Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The court session was scheduled for November 18, Zimbovsky reports.

The news has been corrected. Earlier, it was erroneously reported that Kharchenko was a deceived shareholder, and the article that the police charged him with was incorrectly indicated.

• Participants in various actions are regularly detained on Red Square: eco-activists who wanted to record a video message, participants in single-person pickets with posters against the constitutional reform or in support of protesters in Belarus , and simply pickets with a smiley face or a blank sheet of paper .