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Two pickets were detained in Yekaterinburg
In Yekaterinburg, the picketer Alexander Klokunov, who came out with a poster in support of Kazakhstan, and another picketer with a poster on another topic, was detained. Klokunov himself informed the OVD-Info himself about this.
Klokunov stood with the poster "Schal Ket" - translated "Grandfather, leave." The police detained him after refusing to show his passport.
The second picketer was 50 meters from Klokunov and also refused to show the passport.
Two men were delivered to OP No. 9 of Yekaterinburg.
16:25 Irina Ruchko, a lawyer from the OVD-info, went to the police department to the detainees. The second detainee is the name of Danil Gindullin, in his hands there was a poster with the inscription "The irremovability of power leads to the revolution."
20:21 Alexander Klokunov and Danila Gindullin were released from the police department with protocols about participation in an inconsistent public campaign (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by lawyer Irina Ruchko.
The detainees noted that the police in reports wrote the information that was inappropriate to reality about the distance of activists between each other during the pickets, as well as the content of their posters. Both seized posters.
On January 5, seven people were detained in Moscow, standing in pickets near the Embassy of Kazakhstan with posters in support of the protests there. On January 6, nine people detained there
Since January 2, Kazakhstan has been protests against corruption and for the change of leadership of the country. The reason was the increase in gas prices. The Government of Kazakhstan resigned. On January 5, the authorities announced a state of emergency throughout the country. One of the main slogans of the protesters is “Schal Ket!”, In translated from Kazakh, this means “Grandfather, leave!”, The call is addressed to the first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, who formally left the post of president of the country in 2019, but retained the title of “Father of the Nation”.