Saturday, November 13, 2010

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Russia arrests during a banned demonstration in Moscow

AFP


MOSCOW - Russian police detained Friday at least two dozen opposition protesters who gathered outside City Hall in Moscow despite ban the gathering in which a policeman was wounded, were seen AFP journalists.
leader of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsova and human rights activist Lev Ponomarev man arrested included.
In total, less than one hundred demonstrators attended the rally. As usual, police presence was on her very important, including dozens of officers of riot police wearing helmets and armed with batons.
The protesters chanted "Russia without (Vladimir) Putin," Russian Prime Minister, or "Terror is enough!". Leaflets bearing the image of the journalist Oleg Kashin, Kommersant, beaten a week ago and remains hospitalized, were also distributed by the protesters.
Twenty protesters then gathered outside the police station in central Moscow where their comrades were detained. Half of them were eventually arrested.
Moreover, the police said that one of its staff was injured by a protester: "A participant in the rally has not hurt his arrest during a police sergeant," said a spokesman police, Viktor Biryukov, quoted by Interfax.
"One of the activists was hit in the face with a lit smoke," he said.
Every 12 months of opposition movements organized in Moscow a "day of rage", including the demand for elections to the mayor of Moscow, as the governors of Russian regions, is appointed by Kremlin since the constitutional reform enacted in 2005.

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