Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin was sentenced to 15 days in prison on Tuesday Moscow court.
He was arrested on Monday evening in a city park. accused of grabbing and insulting an agent.
Yashin’s version is that the police approached him while he was sitting on a bench with a friend and demanded that he come with them without giving any reason.
Ilya Yashin told the court that the reasons for his arrest were political, one of which was the municipal elections that began in Moscow last Sunday.
This is told by his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov. numerous political arrests: “Currently, almost every day in Moscow there are arrests of activists and municipal deputies who either want to participate in municipal elections or support their candidates. I am in court and detention almost every day, and I think that perhaps these three factors overlap, but to a greater extent, I believe that your detention and administrative detention are related to the authorities fear that he may interfere and support the municipal election campaign, and his word carries a lot of weight for Moscow voters.”
The appeal was also unsuccessfully filed by the lawyer of oppositionist Alexei Navalny.
Navalny’s representative got acquainted with the appeal, in which they asked to declare illegal orders prohibiting lawyers from bringing laptops, voice recorders or mobile phones to an open court session in the Pokrovskaya colony, where Alexei Navalny is being held..
Navalny was arrested in January 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was rescued and treated for a nerve agent poisoning he blames on Russian authorities.
His arrest is part of the Kremlin’s crackdown on opposition activists and independent journalists.
