Russia: supporters of Alexey Navalny arrested in numbers

Of arrests, sometimes muscular, there were hundreds, Saturday January 23 in Moscow, Saint PETERSBOURG and other cities of Russia, where the supporters of the opponent to Vladimir Putin Alexei Navalny demonstrated to obtain his release. After several hours, the police charged the demonstrators. Moscow police warned: vsunauthorized gatherings would be repressed and elkept his word. “They beat your forehead with a baton “, describes a protester, a bandage around the skull and bloody face

Despite the risks and calls from the police to return home, tens of thousands of people gathered in Pushkin Square especially, in the center of Moscow. “Opposition leader Alexeï Navalny was illegally arrested. We want his release “, explains a woman also present in the street. All were galvanized by Alexeï Navalny himself from his prison. His supporters do not give up and call to demonstrate next week.

The JT

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