At least In Russia, 401 people were arrested since Friday, when an attempt was made to pay tribute to the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to data provided this Sunday by OVD-Info, an NGO committed to protecting the rights of prisoners.
The arrests were carried out in 36 cities across the country, added the NGO, which has been declared a foreign agent by Russian authorities and publishes lists of detainees with their full names.
More than half of the arrests (201) took place in St. Petersburg, the birthplace of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Official forces have been trying since Friday to remove all memorials created by Navalny supporters both in monuments to the victims of political repression and in improvised places.
This happened, according to local Telegram channels, in front of the Kremlin, on the bridge where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in 2015.
According to the local press, numerous people pay homage to the opposition leader by laying flowers or placing candles in designated places in their cities.
Thousands of exiled Russians have also taken to the streets to protest what they see as a murder commissioned by the Kremlin.
At the foot of the Eiffel Tower, candles and flowers for the Russian opposition leader who died on Friday. (Reuters)A sudden death in a Siberian prison
Navalny, 47, died suddenly on Friday in the Arctic prison where he had been held since last December, according to Russia’s prison services.
His co-religionists, the opposition and the independent Russian press, as well as Western foreign ministries In unison they accused Putin of ordering Navalny’s murderthe Kremlin’s number one enemy for 15 years.
Navalny, who was serving a nearly 30-year prison sentence, was transferred to an Arctic prison in December after announcing a campaign against Putin’s re-election in March’s presidential election.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov considered the accusations made by the West “unacceptable” before the results of the autopsy were known.
(EFE Agency)
Source: Clarin
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