At Petrovka, 38, picket in support of the journalist Ilya Azar detained the Deputy of the Moscow city Duma from the party “Yabloko” Sergei Mitrokhin, RIA Novosti reported.

Earlier it was reported that Azar was detained for 15 days for a single picket in support of the Creator of a public “Ombudsman police” Vladimir Vorontsov.

in addition, the chief editor of “echo of Moscow” Alexei Venediktov reported about the arrest in front of the police radio journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer.

Information about his arrest also confirmed the chief editor of “Media zones” Sergei Smirnov, noting that together with him and arrested journalist Alexander Plyuschev.