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Khabarovsk [Russia], January 26 (ANI/Sputnik): The coordinator of opposition figure Alexei Navalny s office in the Russian far-eastern city of Khabarovsk, Alexey Vorsin, has been placed under administrative arrest for 11 days for resisting police officers, the city s central district court told Sputnik on Tuesday.
According to the court, during protests in support of the former Governor Sergey Furgal last month, the police attempted to detain a journalist from the RusNews online outlet for an unspecified reason, but the journalist escaped in Vorsin s car. The court has placed Vorsin under an administrative arrest for 11 days under the Article 19.3, Part 1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (a refusal to obey lawful demands of a police officer). This is a penalty for the events of December 26, 2020, the court said.
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