Alexei Tyurin holds solo picket at the FSB building in Astrakhan, December 20, 2017. Photo by Elena Grebenyuk for the Caucasian Knot.

20 December 2017, 22:36

Astrakhan activists hold pickets on FSB Day

In front of the FSB building in Astrakhan, activists have held two solo pickets demanding to stop politically motivated persecutions and respect the Constitution's article on the freedom of assembly.

Alexei Tyurin stood today at the entrance to the regional FSB department with a poster "FSB Day – 100 years of serving usurpers and corrupt bureaucrats"; while Mikhail Anisenko was there at another time with a poster "Russia's Constitution, Article 31. We demand to stop political repressions!" The today's solo pickets passed without incidents, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

"The repressive business is alive; in our region, I faced fabrication of cases by the FSB, like in the case of Igor Stenin, where I was a witness, and later also in the case against me. The task of FSB agents is to suppress, by all means, activeness of the citizens, who disagree with the leadership's policy," Alexei Tyurin has stated.

On May 16, 2016, Igor Stenin was sentenced to 2 years in prison for reposting an article on the war in Ukraine in a social network. He was found guilty of spreading calls for extremism.

"The Constitution and the freedom of assembly must be respected; there is no such thing for a long time. Take the situation with Alexei Navalny's supporters, who are not allowed to make a step; and whose promotion materials are stolen," another picketer, Mikhail Anisenko, told the "Caucasian Knot".

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Elena Grebenyuk Source: CK correspondent

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