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Today police arrested activists of the Youth YABLOKO – Kirill Gontcharov, Gleb
Sitnikov and Sofia Rusova – for writing “This government should
resign!” in front of the United Russia’s party office in the
center of Moscow.
Police used violence in detention of the activists, however,
failed to give any grounds for such an arrest.
Photo: Kirill Gontcharov arrested by police
Photo: "This governmet should resign!"
In the police station the activists were accused of conducting
an unsanctioned picket. Soon the police will get the activists
to court.
Today’s action by the United Russia office was conducted
in solidarity with the activists of the Youth YABLOKO branch
in the Sverdlovsk region – Anastasya Zheltisheva and Eugeni
Mezentsev - who stood before court today for writing the same
slogan during a concert organised by United Russia in Ekaterinburg.
The activists were detained on June 30 under a pretext of
unsanctioned advertising. YABLOKO called these accusations
absurd.
Ekaterinburg activists have already forwarded a complaint
to Russia’s Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.
Actions of solidarity are held today by United Russia’s offices
in other cities: St.Petersburg, Penza, Chelyabinsk and Kostroma.
See also:
Freedom
of Assembly
Freedom
of Speech
Human
Rights
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