
The Libertarian party filed an application with the Moscow City Hall to the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on Academician Sakharov Avenue on January 31. This was reported by the MBH Media by the party chairman Boris Fedyukin, calling the shameful detention of Navalny at Sheremetyevo Airport immediately upon arrival from Germany.
A rally of up to 10 thousand people is declared as an action with a request to immediately release Navalny and "stop the obstacles" of his political activity.
The board with Alexei Navalny from Germany was supposed to land at the Vnukovo Moscow airport, but the flight was redirected to Sheremetyevo due to the "abnormal situation" on the runway. According to BAZA, the leadership of Aeroflot and Victory knew about this maneuver per day.
In Vnukovo, the international terminal was not allowed without tickets, this applied not only to the supporters of Navalny, but also to those who met their relatives and friends at the airport. They had to wait on the street in a 20-degree frost. According to the "White Counter", about 2 thousand people arrived to meet Navalny in Vnukovo. Toward evening, riot police appeared at the airport, detention began.
Navalny was detained in passport control in Sheremetyevo. For several hours, relatives and associates did not know about his whereabouts. Later it became known that he is in the police department in Khimki. The politician was detained by the Federal Penitentiary Service on the basis of a decree on the search for "systematic violations of the conditions of the trial period" in the case of IV Rocher. "
At the same time, the criminal executive and procedural codes do not have a norm on the basis of which security forces can detain the conditionally convicted persons who, according to the inspection, are hidden from control, the Russian BBC service notes with reference to Navalny’s lawyer Olga Mikhailova.
At night, lawyers refused to let the opposition to the Internal Affairs Directorate, referring to at night. On Monday morning, Mikhailov and another lawyer Vadim Kobzev was passed to the department, but not to Navalny himself, the press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmysh said .
"The lawyers were missed in the Internal Affairs Directorate, put in some office. They said that the FSIN should come and bring materials for familiarization, after which the court will be today. Alexei has not yet seen lawyers. We assume that they can now take him somewhere without them," she wrote.