4 hours agoMoscow is foretold: Police arrest between 1000 Navajo protesters
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The Moskovite police have paralysed the centre of the Russian capital until protests in support of the imprisoned opposition leader, Alexei Nabalnyt, are continuing for the second week in a row. More than a thousand people including the wife of Navally, Yuljan, have been sent to maintenance after supporters of the Kremlin critic took to the streets to protest [...]
More than a thousand people, including the wife of Navally, Yuljan, have been sent to the hold after supporters of the Kremlin critic took to the streets to protest his imprisonment, despite the cold and threat of arrest, writes Guardian.
Taking unprecedented security measures, police and national guard troops closed the subway stations in Moscow and blocked key squares to prevent the repetition of last week's record protests.
Forced to stay outside the city center, crowds of thousands of cheering people “Putin is thief” while marching to Moscow's Komsomolskaya Square.
Armed police behind them rushed to conduct mass arrests.
“Moscow looks like a castle today,” said Maria Lazareva, protesters who found herself stuck between the two police lines. /Periscope
