A picketer who advocated the impeachment of Putin was detained in Nizhny Novgorod

In Nizhny Novgorod, security forces detained a girl who went out with a picket on one of the central streets of the city. The poster read: “Wow. deputies! Impeach Putin. The incident was reported by the movement "Spring".

To which police department the girl was taken and what she is charged with is not yet known.

22:18 The detainee was charged with an article on hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and left in the department for the night before the trial. This was reported to OVD-Info by the human rights project Zabralo.

October 6 12:59 The court returned the protocol under the article on petty hooliganism back to police department No. 5, where the head of the police department fined the detained girl 500 rubles. Andrey Valenkov, coordinator of the Zabralo partner project, told OVD-Info about this.

• According to the federal law on rallies, it is not required to notify the authorities of a single picket and agree on a place for holding it. You can read more about the rules for holding a single picket in our instructions .