A court in Moscow arrested picketers who advocated for Navalny's release

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed 10 days of administrative arrest on picketers Alexander Kibanov and Konstantin Zaruba, who advocated for the release of politician Alexei Navalny. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Alexander Salamov, who represented their interests in court.

The activists were detained on Pushkinskaya Square on February 13 and taken to the Tverskoy police station. There, protocols were drawn up against them under the article on repeated violation of the “rally” legislation (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). After this, Kibanov and Zaruba were left in the department overnight until the trial.

16 February 13:50 The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to arrest Alexander Kibanov and Konstantin Zaruba, lawyer Alexander Salamov reports.

The picketers are serving administrative arrest in Moscow special detention center No. 2 in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki.

• Alexey Navalny is in IK-2, Vladimir region. The oppositionist decided to return to Russia after completing a course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany: he was taken there by plane after being poisoned with Novichok, for which the politician blamed the FSB. After his return, he was detained and arrested . Then the court satisfied the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case.