More than 100 arrested at Navalny memorials
More than 100 arrested at Navalny memorials
More than 100 people have been arrested by Russian authorities at spontaneous memorials for Alexei Navalny, a rights group said this morning.
People were seen gathering to place flowers at makeshift monuments across Russia late Friday, and in some cases were detained by police, social media footage showed.
As of this morning, “more than 101 people” had already been detained in 10 cities, including 64 in Russia’s second-largest city of Saint Petersburg, OVD-Info said.
Eleven people were detained in Moscow, and multiple others in the cities of Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don and Tver, it said.
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