In St. Petersburg, a fresh wave of administrative actions followed as 72 people were brought to responsibility for gathering in public spaces. The decisions to pursue cases against them were issued by the Moscow, Kalininsky, Nevsky, and Kirovsky district courts within the city, according to the joint press service of the city courts.
A total of 72 individuals were found guilty of violating public order and for coordinating large, simultaneous gatherings in public places. Of those, 68 people received administrative detention ranging from 1 to 13 days, while the remaining four were fined 10,000 rubles each.
Earlier updates under the same administrative provision indicated that more than 100 individuals from St. Petersburg had already faced legal action.
Prior to that, reports described mass arrests at protests held in memory of Navalny. In the evening, police detained people who gathered at the memorial dedicated to victims of political repression near the pre-trial detention center No. 1, known as Kresty, to lay flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny. Among those detained were a RusNews journalist and a photographer for Novaya Gazeta who documented the action. They were placed into a vehicle and taken to the 28th police station, but were released after a short time.
Earlier statements from the Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, reported the death of a prisoner, Alexei Navalny.