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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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