The head of the local Yabloko party was detained in Kazan for supporting a Ryazan journalist.
Ruslan Zinatullin was detained for participating in a collective picket, which passed February 1: The head of Yabloko stood with a poster in support of the Ryazan journalist Konstantin Smirnov, arrested on suspicion of extortion.
The poster read: “Konstantin Smirnov is a journalist, not a criminal.”
How to сообщает Tatarstan's Yabloko, for which Zinatullin was taken to the police station.
Yesterday, a picket in support of the arrested Ryazan journalists passed в Penza: there were no arrests there.
Editor-in-chief of the Ryazan Novaya Gazeta Alexey Frolov, founder of the publication "Ryazan. Side View" Konstantin Smirnov and the former editor-in-chief of Rzn.info Natalia Smolyaninova were arrested This weekend, in a case of extortion of a bribe of 300 thousand rubles from the general director of a “specialized commercial organization.”
At the trial to select a preventive measure for Alexey Frolov allowedthat his arrest was revenge by criminal elements for articles published in his publication.
UPDATE at 10:00 PM
A Kazan subscriber, citing a lawyer, told NeMoskva that Ruslan Zinatullin is still being held at the police station. He has been held for over three hours, despite the fact that he suffers from type 2 diabetes, a condition that precludes administrative arrest.
Photo: Yabloko
