The Oktyabrsky District Court of Tambov has arrested Denis Kruglov, a Yandex.Taxi driver, for 7 days, who posted a video on VKontakte calling for protests in support of Alexei Navalny on June 4. This is stated in the court ruling, SOTA drew attention to it.
The decision on the protocol under part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of an uncoordinated rally) against Kruglov was made by the court on May 30, today, June 10, it came into by virtue of.
According to the court, having posted the video, the taxi driver «carried out actions to organize an unauthorized public event», and also took part in the activities of the «extremist organization Navalny's headquarters».
Kruglov himself said that he did not publish the video of his own free will. According to him, since 2005 he has been in a passive, and since 2016, in an active «phase of psychotronics processing by the FSB.» The taxi driver added that he did not want to publish the video, but “modern impact technologies used by special services bring a person to a state where outsiders can see through the eyes of another person, perform actions with the hands of another person, a person is introduced into an altered consciousness and cannot resist the demands, given to him.»
On June 4, the birthday of Alexei Navalny, actions were held in Russia and abroad in support of him. In Russian cities, according to OVD-Info, more than a hundred people were detained — half of the cases occurred in Moscow, another 20 people were detained in St. Petersburg.
June 4th. Actions on Navalny's birthday and detention