Riot police arrest opposition leaders in Moscow

by admin
Dec 14, 2012

Riot police arrested four opposition leaders at an anti-Putin rally in Moscow on Saturday.

The rally, techinically illegal, took place at the former KGB security police's headquarters, and were intended to mark one year from the first anti-Putin demonstrations.

Protesters marched shouting, "Free political prisoners!", and "Down with the police state".

Alexei Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov, IIya Yashin and Ksenia Sobchak were detained.

Navalny, an anti-corruption blogger, shouted as he was being taken away, "the bloody regime has got to Sobchak".

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