Five people were detained in Kaluga at an unauthorized rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It is reported by ovdinfo.org.
“In Kaluga, at an unauthorized rally in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, five people were detained. The total number of detainees throughout Russia is 1,752. Most of the protesters were detained in St. Petersburg, Ufa, Kazan and Barnaul. In Moscow, 29 people were detained,” site.
The regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet commented on the information about the arrests. Similar unauthorized actions took place on Wednesday, April 21, in a number of regions of the country.
On February 2, the court changed opposition leader Navalny’s suspended sentence to a real one according to the sentence that was passed back in 2014 in the case of embezzlement of funds from the Yves Rocher company. The FSIN made a request to change the punishment, complaining that the convicted person misses visits to the inspector and ignores the restrictions on probation. Now Navalny, while in prison, went on a hunger strike.