For the fifth time in less than a month, Russian police have arrested opposition leader Ljubov Sobol, but this lawyer succeeded on this day of the tenth of August, to photograph what happened to her.
She used her mobile phone and sent through the video filmed by several political messages.
Sobol, whose face was pointed at the camera, explains how Russian authorities prevented her from participating in the protests, saying:
“I was not allowed to go to the demonstration. [...] I was going to join it already. They will speak, they will defend me and those behind bars on illegal charges, who were imprisoned after an illegal administrative search. "
This opposition lawyer has repeatedly said that “the police are trying to break the door,” and during the last 10 seconds of recording, at least five masked men entered and detained the building.
For the fourth consecutive week, thousands of Russians took to the streets on Saturday to denounce the exclusion of independent candidates from the September local elections.
Sobol, a member of the anti-corruption team led by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was released because Russian law prohibits administrative detention penalties for women with young children.