91 people in 19 cities were detained on the day of Alexei Navalny's farewell. Arrests continue today.
Lists of detainees publishes OVD-info. The arrests took place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Ulan-Ude, Tomsk, Nizhnevartovsk and other cities.
Some were taken to the police station and released without a report. Others were kept in a cell overnight.
🔹For example, in Yekaterinburg police задержала lawyer Sergei Tiunov, who attempted to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny and allegedly refused to leave. He faces up to 15 days in jail. Ten other people detained with him have been released.
🔹Arrests continue today. Novosibirsk to the police department delivered Daria Gorbyleva, who came out with a sign reading, "He's gone, but we're alive." She was accompanied by her two-year-old daughter, who was also taken to the police station.
🔹In Astrakhan at the monument to the victims of political repression arrested at least four people. One of them is an activist of the "Sided Rus'" movement.She turns around and sees three people running across the lawn. They pinned her down. Threw out the flowers. They took her to the police station. And the people who had come to the monument before her were already there. And while they were writing up a report on her, three more were brought in."," said the head of the "Sided Rus'" movement. Olga Romanova.
Lawyers from the First Department emphasize, that in at least four cities, courts have already equated Navalny's name with extremist symbols and, on this basis, are ordering arrests for those who write it on posters.
Photos, videos: 1 — RusNews, Novosibirsk; 2 — Roman Kachanov, Yekaterinburg