Over 100 Detained at Pro-Navalny Rallies in Russia on His 47th Birthday

In different cities of Russia on Sunday, a few actions were held in support of the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who turned 47 that day, more than 100 people were detained.

Source: “New Newspaper. Europe“, OVD-Info

Details: According to OVD-Info, more than 100 people were detained at rallies in support of Navalny throughout Russia, 55 of them in Moscow.

According to human rights activists, the protesters were detained for blue-and-yellow balloons, a jacket with the inscription ShIZO, leaflets with “an appeal to sofas,” and a poster “Freedom and kangaroos, Putin is a spider.”

The police conducted raids on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro line in Moscow, confiscated passports and telephones, and did not let lawyers into offices. Among the detainees were five minors and two journalists.

One of the first detainees in Moscow was a man with a poster “Freedom and kangaroos, Putin is a spider” standing on Red Square. Navalny recently said that the prison staff did not allow him to have a kangaroo in his cell. Ivan Putyatin was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station, and a protocol was drawn up against him on violating the rules for holding a picket.

According to the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow”, a man was taken to a paddy wagon, who scattered leaflets on Pushkinskaya Square. They also detained a man who came out to the Moscow theater of the musical with a poster “Freedom to Navalny.”

By 17:10, about 20 people had already been detained on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Caution Media calculated. Among them is RusNews freelance journalist Yulia Petrova, who filmed the report, as well as Sergei Surovtsev, a person involved in the Moscow Case. He stood in a jacket with the inscription “SHIZO”.

In addition, detentions took place on Lubyanka, Red Square, Manezhnaya Square, Nikolskaya Street.

Five people were detained near Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg, writes SOTA. Among them is a woman with a minor daughter. According to Rusnews, two people were detained near the courtyard, who were walking with blue and yellow balloons. Together with them, another Petersburger was detained.

At least two people were detained on Palace Square, reports Paper and Sever.Realii. Picketer Aleksey Kucherenko was detained on the Field of Mars, OVD-Info writes. They take him to the police station. A Fontanka correspondent was also detained, Avtozak LIVE reports. After verification, he was released.