File – File image of a protest in favor of the release of Alexei Navalny. – Federico Gambarini/dpa – Archive
MADRID, 17 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
More than a hundred people have been arrested in concentrations registered throughout Russia in memory of the dissident Alexei Navalni a day after the authorities announced his death in prison, where he was serving a sentence of almost 30 years in prison for extremism and fraud. .
The Russian Police have so far arrested 101 people in more than a dozen cities ranging from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tula, Belgorod and Kranoyarsk to Ufa, Kirov, Veliki and Novgorod, among others, according to information from the NGO OVD- Info, specialized in monitoring arrests.
In Saint Petersburg, security forces have dispersed dozens of people who have gone to the monument to the victims of political repression in Voskresenskaya. Among those detained in the aforementioned town are two journalists, ‘Novaya Gazeta’ photographer Alexei Dushutin and RusNews channel journalist Elina Kozich.
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Arrests also took place in the vicinity of Moscow’s Solovetsky Stone, on Lubyanka Square, in front of the KGB headquarters. The inhabitants of the capital have placed flowers at the monument. According to information from the newspaper ‘The Moscow Times’, RusNews journalist Yulia Petrova has been arrested in the area.
OVD-Info has indicated that, in addition, concentrations have been recorded abroad. More than a thousand people have demonstrated in cities such as Yerevan, in Armenia, Tbilisi and Batumi, both in Georgia, as well as in the Turkish city of Istanbul and the capitals of Serbia, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Lithuania and Latvia, among others.
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– 2024-05-13 12:00:47
