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In St. Petersburg, a picketer with a poster “We are waiting for change” was detained and already released.
In St. Petersburg, picketer Alexander Shakhov, who stood with a poster “We are waiting for changes,” was detained and already released. The detainee himself told OVD-Info about this.
The man held a protest near the Pionerskaya metro station. The security forces took him to OP No. 35 and released him after drawing up a protocol under the article on violation of the “Covid” high alert regime (Part 1 of Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).
- According to the federal law on rallies, it is not necessary to notify the authorities about a single picket and agree on its location. You can read more about the rules for holding a single picket in our.
instructions - In St. Petersburg, activists are regularly detained with pickets on various topics: against, local, in support and others. Also in the northern capital, there are often participants in the open-ended protest action “Strategy-18”, speaking out in support of the Crimean Tatars.