Navalny sent his spokespeople abroad to livestream Sunday's nationwide protests. Police arrested them when they flew home, and now one has been jailed for eight days

Ruslan Shaveddinov, a spokesperson for the politician Alexey Navalny, has been sentenced to eight days in jail for using Twitter to promote “illegal public demonstrations.” On Tuesday, police detained Shaveddinov and Kira Yarmysh (another Navalny spokesperson) at Sheremetyevo airport, as they returned from an unknown location abroad, where the two hosted a 14-hour YouTube livestream of “voters’ boycott” demonstrations in cities throughout Russia on January 28.

Yarmysh, who faces the same charges, is still awaiting her verdict.

Update: Kira Yarmysh was sentenced to five days in jail.

Shaveddinov and Yarmysh left the country in a successful effort to avoid a crackdown by Russian law enforcement. Back in Moscow, police tried in vain to find and cut the feed to Navalny’s YouTube broadcast. Officials raided the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, sawing through the doors of three locked rooms, searching fruitlessly for the computers powering “Navalny Live.”

According to the website OVD-Info, police detained 350 demonstrators around the country on Sunday. Most of these people were soon released without charges. Navalny was also released, but he is required to report back for additional questioning.