Some of the closest collaborators of the
opponent Alexey Navalny
were arrested on suspicion of violating anti-Covid regulations after searches in their homes and offices: the head of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund, Ivan Zhdanov, reported by Moscow Times.
The arrests come after last Saturday's mass protests against the detention of the opponent.
The dissident's brother, Oleg, the lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Fund Liubov Sobol and the leader of the Alliance of Doctors union Anastasia Vasilyeva were arrested for 48 hours.
Even
Maria Alyokhina
, among the best known members of the protest group
Pussy Riot
, was arrested for 48 hours under the same investigation.
Allegations of violations of restrictions against the Covid-19 epidemic include jail terms of up to two years, which can go up to five years if authorities believe that failure to comply with the rules has led to the death of someone.
The coronavirus center claims at least 19 Covid-positive people participated in protests in Moscow against Navalny's detention.
Alexey Navalny was arrested and jailed on allegedly politically motivated charges as soon as he returned to Moscow after spending five months in Germany.
In Berlin the opponent was hospitalized in a coma and then underwent rehabilitation after a poisoning suffered in Russia and for which the main suspects are the Kremlin secret services.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened an investigation against Leonid Volkov, the coordinator of the regional offices of the opponent Alexey Navalny, on charges of inciting teenagers to participate in unauthorized protests.
This was reported by the spokesperson of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko, shot by the Interfax agency.
At least 4,002 people were arrested in Russia for taking part in the mass protests last Saturday in over a hundred cities against the detection of the opponent: the OVD-Info reports, updating its arrest balance.
