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More than 340 people were detained. at rallies throughout Russia in memory of the dissident Alexey Navalny the day after the authorities announced their death in prisonwhere he
More than 340 people were detained. at rallies throughout Russia in memory of the dissident Alexey Navalny the day after the authorities announced their death in prisonwhere he served a sentence of almost 30 years in prison for extremism and fraud.
NGO “OVD-Info”, specializing in monitoring arrests on its news channel. Telegramrevealed that “More than 340 people have already been detained at spontaneous monuments to Alexei Navalny. 230 of them were arrested today.”. He later added.
We are doing everything possible to help those detained. Defense (lawyers) OVD-Info work in different regions.
Rallies were held in various cities: from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Tula, Belgorod, Kursk, Novocherkassk and Krasnoyarsk to Ufa, Kirov, Veliky and Novgorod and others.
IN Saint PetersburgSecurity forces dispersed dozens of people who went to the Solovetsky Stone, a monument to victims of political repression, erected in Voskresenskaya. Among those detained in the above-mentioned city are two journalists, a photographer New Newspaper Alexey Dushutin and channel journalist RusNews Elina Kozich.
Were also produced about 50 arrests in the Solovetsky Stone area in Moscow, on Lubyanka Square, in front of the KGB building. Residents of the capital laid flowers at the monument. According to The Moscow Times newspaper, RusNews journalist Yulia Petrova was arrested in this area. “Right arrests are underway in Moscow now,” reports OVD-Info.
The media loves Jack And RusNews published videos of protests in which participants carried signs with words such as “Murderer” and chanted the word “Shame!” when arrests began near the Western Wall, impromptu erected in memory of Navalny.
Politicians and “sorrowful policemen” in Moscow were also driven into the snow, dipped his head in a snowdrift, and then rudely demanded that he stand up.
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The OVD-Info group noted that the Bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church Grigory Mizhnov-Vaitenko, who was to perform Navalny’s funeral service, was taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg.
The NGO indicated that, in addition, concentrations were recorded abroad. More than a thousand people demonstrated in cities such as Yerevan, ArmeniaTbilisi and Batumi, both in Georgiaas well as in the capitals of Finland, Denmark, Serbia, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Great Britain, Lithuania and Latvia and others.
Protest in Helsinki. | Photo: Reuters.
Protests in Copenhagen. | Photo: Reuters.
Protests in London. | Photo: Reuters.
(according to information from Europe Press)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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