{"id":161813,"date":"2021-01-24T11:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/russian-police-detain-people-protesting-alexei-navalnys-detainment\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T08:27:29","slug":"russian-police-detain-people-protesting-alexei-navalnys-detainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/russian-police-detain-people-protesting-alexei-navalnys-detainment\/","title":{"rendered":"#Russian police detain people protesting Alexei Navalny’s detainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MOSCOW \u2013 Police detained more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as tens of thousands of protesters ignored extreme cold and police warnings to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.<\/p>\n

Navalny had called on his supporters to protest after being arrested last weekend as he returned to Russia from Germany for the first time since being poisoned with a nerve agent he says was slipped to him by state security agents in August.<\/p>\n

The authorities had warned people to stay away from Saturday\u2019s demonstrations, saying they risked catching COVID-19 as well as prosecution and possible jail time for attending an unauthorized event.<\/p>\n

But protesters defied the ban and, in at least one case in temperatures below -58 Fahrenheit, turned out in force. Leonid Volkov, a Navalny ally, called on them to do the same next weekend to try to free Navalny from what he called \u201cthe clutches of his killers\u201d.<\/p>\n

In central Moscow, where Reuters reporters estimated up to 40,000 people had gathered in one of the biggest unauthorized rallies for years, police were seen roughly detaining people, bundling them into nearby vans.<\/p>\n

The authorities said just some 4,000 people had shown up, while the foreign ministry questioned Reuters crowd estimate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not just immedia<\/a>tely say 4 million?\u201d it suggested sarcastically on its official Telegram messenger channel.<\/p>\n

Ivan Zhdanov, a Navalny ally, put turnout in the capital at 50,000, the Proekt media outlet reported.<\/p>\n

Some protesters chanted \u201cPutin is a thief\u201d, and \u201cDisgrace\u201d and \u201cFreedom to Navalny!\u201d<\/p>\n

Navalny\u2019s wife Yulia was briefly detained at the rally before being released. Some of Navalny\u2019s political allies were detained in the days before the protest, others on the day itself.<\/p>\n

At one point, protesters surrounded a sleek black car with a flashing light used by senior officials, throwing snowballs at it and kicking it. A group of policemen were also pelted with snowballs by a much bigger crowd.<\/p>\n

The OVD-Info protest monitor group said that 3,296 people, including 1,294 in Moscow and 489 in St. Petersburg, had been detained at rallies in around 100 towns and cities.<\/p>\n

The United States condemned what it described as \u201charsh tactics\u201d used against protesters and journalists and called for Navalny\u2019s \u201cimmediate and unconditional\u201d release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights,\u201d U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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