They returned it along with the protocols: how those detained on June 4 were transported for two days from the police to the court and back

Alexey Navalny returned to Russia in January 2021 after completing a course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany. He was taken there by plane due to poisoning with the secret nerve agent Novichok; the politician blamed the FSB for the poisoning. Upon his return, Navalny was detained right at Sheremetyevo airport and was soon taken into custody . Then the court satisfied the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace the suspended sentence for the politician with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. The oppositionist is in a colony, whose administration regularly sends him to a punishment cell. Since his arrest, several more criminal cases have been opened against Navalny. He has already been convicted of two of them: the total term for the politician is nine years. In total, he is charged with at least ten articles of the criminal code.

Aleksei Navalny's associates called for rallies in his support on Sunday, June 4, the politician's 47th birthday. According to OVD-Info, security forces then detained at least 124 people in 28 Russian cities, and more than half of them in Moscow.

Among those detained in the capital were Artemy Solomin, Olga Lebedyuk, Anton Malykhin, Eduard Lashkarov, Yakov Deshchenko, Yana Sizova, Vyacheslav Skuzovatov, Dmitry Len, Ekaterina Romanova-Vedenina and a minor young man (his name is known to the editors). The security forces detained all of them on Pushkin Square without explaining the reason or introducing themselves.

“Your position is not close to us, but we don’t consider you criminals either. We have instructions from above. We have to deal with real criminals, but we don’t have time for you,” Vyacheslav Skuzovatov, who came out that day with a poster “Freedom for political prisoners!” reports the words of police officers. #FreeNavalny! No war".

Yakov Deshchenko, who held a picket with a “Free Navalny” poster, says that when he was detained, the police twisted his hands, threatened him with prison, and asked who paid him to take part in the action. Anton Malykhin, who was detained with a poster “Freedom for Navalny,” was asked the same thing. Freedom for Russia." In addition, the security forces, according to the detainees, “insulted Navalny.”

The detainees were taken to the Izmailovo police station, charged with disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code) and left in the department until trial. Lebedyuk, Sizova, Romanova-Vedenina and Len spent the night in the Izmailovo OP, and the rest were taken to the Metrogorodok and Severnoye Izmailovo departments. The minor boy was released late in the evening when his father came to the department to pick him up.

Ekaterina Romanova-Vedenina, detained because of the “Happy Birthday” balloon, told OVD-Info that she, Olga Lebedyuk, Yana Sizova and Dmitry Lenya at the Izmailovo OP were given two mattresses for four of them. The cell, she said, was “almost like a freezer,” and it was impossible to sit on the bench without a mattress because of the cold. “When I sat on the tiles in court, it seemed to me that it was very warm,” says Ekaterina. Due to the ban on ropes in the cells, the woman had the strings cut off, saying that if she was not satisfied with this, she could go to the cold cell wearing only a T-shirt.