A Muscovite with a poster for freedom of the press and political prisoners was detained on Pushkin Square

Police officers in Moscow detained Ashot Melkonyan, a picketer, who was walking with a banner “Freedom to political prisoners! Freedom of the press! on Pushkinskaya Square. He himself informed OVD-Info about this.

Now Melkonyan is in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Tverskaya district. A lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov came to see him.

19:50 Ashot Melkonyan was released from the police department after drawing up a protocol on violation of the high alert regime (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). In the department, he was assisted by a lawyer from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov.