Moscow Jails Overwhelmed With Detained Navalny And Anti-Government Protesters

 

Moscow Times: As Moscow’s Jails Overflow, Navalny Detainees Are Held Outside the City

Friends and relatives of people arrested at rallies in support of the opposition leader are queuing with care packages in the village of Sakharovo. 

Denis Bondarenko is waiting in the snow in a long snaking queue of around 150 people outside the Foreign Citizen Temporary Detention Center in the small village of Sakharovo, 80 kilometers outside Moscow. 

The 27-year-old lawyer is clutching a parcel of food and warm winter clothes for his cousin Ivan, a carer at a Moscow children’s hospice who was taken to the center in the early hours of Wednesday morning after leaving work and being arrested by riot police during protests over the jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. 

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Update #1: Moscow’s jails overwhelmed with detained Navalny protesters -- AP 

Update #2: 28 to a cell, one loo, no beds: Desperate conditions for inmates as Kremlin crackdown overwhelms jails -- The Independent 

WNU Editor: The official government line is that there is no over-crowding .... Moscow officials deny conditions at post-protest detention centers are overcrowded as journalist live-blogs time behind bars (RT).