In St. Petersburg, Dmitry Kuzmin was detained, who went out on a solo picket with a poster “Freedom for Zarema Musaeva.” He himself told OVD-Info about this.
The man was detained on Nevsky Prospekt, near the City Duma building. The picketer was taken to OP No. 28. He is charged with violating anti-Covid restrictions (Part 2 of Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg).
Dmitry Kuzmin was released from the police department with a report on violation of anti-Covid restrictions. He was assisted by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Vladislav Sosensky.
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.
Putin's legislators Navalny political prisoners are detained - Zarema Musayeva is the wife of retired federal judge Saidi Yangulbayev, their eldest son Abubakar Yangulbayev worked as a lawyer in the Committee Against Torture, the authorities also suspect him and other sons of involvement in the Chechen opposition channel 1ADAT. Family members have been persecuted for years. On July 4, Musaev was sentenced to five and a half years in a general regime colony for fraud and violence against a police officer. The investigation claims that she, together with an “accomplice,” in 2017 implemented a fraudulent scheme related to consumer loans, and after being detained and brought to Grozny for questioning, she scratched a policeman’s cheek. The woman herself did not admit guilt. sentenced