Two picketers with posters in support of political prisoners were detained at the Moscow City Court

Alexey Ushakov was detained at the Moscow City Court building, standing with a poster “Freedom for Ilya Yashin!” Ushakov himself told OVD-Info about this.

Now the man is being taken to the Preobrazhenskoye police station. A lawyer from OVD-Info, Yulia Kuznetsova, came to see him.

14:23 Together with Ushakov at the Preobrazhenskoye police station there is another picketer detained at the Moscow City Court - Andrei Kizevalter. Kiesewalter’s poster had the inscription “Freedom for political prisoners // KGB officer resign.” Kiesewalter is also being assisted by lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova.

16:15 Alexey Ushakov was released with a report on an article about violating the rules of participation in a rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

17:25 Lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova reported that the detained picketer Kizewalter has been in police custody for more than three hours. At the same time, the security forces did not draw up any documents - neither a protocol of delivery, nor a protocol of detention.

The defender filed a complaint with the department's duty department for the immediate release of Kiesewalter.

18:06 Yulia Kuznetsova told OVD-Info that Kiesewalter was being kept in police custody overnight. He is charged with repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The news headline has been changed due to the emergence of information about the second detainee.

• Today, August 8, an appeal hearing is scheduled to take place in the Moscow City Court regarding the suppression of Yashin - the politician has been in pre-trial detention since July 13 in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The reason for the criminal prosecution of the oppositionist was his YouTube streams in which he spoke about Bucha . On July 27, he was transferred to pre-trial detention center-7 “Kapotnya”.
• Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) was included in the Criminal Code in March 2022 - this is how the authorities responded to anti-war protests and the dissemination of information about the war. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison.