Russian Police Detain 200 Participants At An Opposition Forum In Moscow

 

DW: Russian police raid Moscow opposition conference 

Some 200 people, including scores of opposition politicians, were detained during a meeting in Moscow. The police claim participants were breaking COVID-19 rules.

Several prominent Kremlin critics were released from police custody on Saturday following an unprecedented raid on a political conference. 

Moscow police previously said some 200 people had been detained while attending a summit on municipal politics.

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WNU Editor: This forum was organized by former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Here is some inside baseball on Russian politics. Mikhail Khodorkovsky is not the person that Russia's opposition groups should rally around. He is no respect from the average Russian. How he and others tried to loot Russia through bribes and corruption when the Soviet Union collapsed is still remembered by many. This blogger included. 

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Police detain participants in Russian opposition forum -- AP 

Russian police detain around 200 people, including leading opposition figures, at Moscow meeting -- Reuters 

Russian Police Detain Around 200 At Opposition Event In Moscow -- RFE 

 Russian police detain 150 people at meeting of opposition politicians in Moscow accusing them of having links to 'undesirable organisation' -- Daily Mail 

200 opposition activists detained at democratic forum in Moscow. Russian authorities says they were breaking Covid-19 protocol -- CNN 

Dozens Arrested at Russian Opposition Forum -- Moscow Times/AFP 

Police in Moscow Raid Pro-Democracy Forum, Dozens Detained -- VOA 

Russian police detain participants at opposition forum in Moscow -- Euronews 

Around 200 people detained at United Democrats forum in Moscow -- TASS 

Police disrupt Moscow summit of banned pro-Western group linked to ex-oligarch, making around 200 arrests -- RT