I’ve just returned from Tverskoy Court, where my case was heard regarding my rather strange detention after the Dissenters’ March. Back then, those of us who had brought a complaint to the Central Election Commission were allowed through the police cordon—and then loaded into a police van. There is video footage of the events here. We were taken to the Yakimanka police station, where they confiscated our mobile phones and held us for five hours. A lawyer who arrived with the proper authorization wasn’t even allowed onto the station grounds. After five hours of sitting there, it turned out that I had supposedly crossed the street in the wrong place. So that was what the trial was about: crossing the street. The traffic cop who came in as a witness had no idea what was going on and was scared out of his mind. First, our lawyer Vadim Prokhorov put the fear of God into him. Then I asked: Tell me, when you detain people for crossing the street in the wrong place, do you take them to a police station? He said: - No, of course not, it’s a 100-ruble fine. Me: - And yet the case materials say that you personally detained me and even took me to the Yakimanka police station. At that point he got rattled: "No! I definitely haven’t detained anyone in the last six months, nothing like that ever happened." When he (the traffic cop) finally understood what this was about, he got furious and said the whole thing was a setup by the regular police against the traffic police. “Now,” he says, “I’ll tell you how it really happened.” And right there in the hearing he told the judge that he had been instructed over the radio to come to the Yakimanka police station, where a colonel was sitting in the duty office and ordered him to process all the detainees as if they had crossed the street improperly. Before that, he had never even seen any of us, and he had not been on duty on M. Cherkassky Lane (where the detention took place). In the end, our complaints—mine and that of Sergei Gorodilin from SPS (Union of Right Forces)—were upheld. So we now have a fact established in court: we committed no offense whatsoever that could have justified detaining us. Now we have every opportunity to go after the Yakimanka police station hard and methodically. And that’s exactly what we’re going to do.