Monday, April 2, 2012
Russian Police Detain 55 Protesters Near Moscow's Red Square
Russian police say they detained 55 opposition supporters near Moscow's Red Square in order to prevent an unauthorized anti-government rally there.
Activists had called for supporters to walk around the square, located outside of the Kremlin, wearing white ribbons as a symbol of the protest movement.
But police closed the square and blocked off its access roads, preventing the gathering.
Russian opposition activists have criticized the government for violating their right to freedom of assembly.
Tens of thousands of activists have rallied in recent months against widespread fraud in the parliamentary election and against Vladimir Putin's election as president last month. source
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
One of the turning points in human evolution occurred 300,000 years earlier than previously believed. Traces of ash mixed with million-year...
-
A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck the Virgin Islands Region at a depth of just 5 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 16:24:36 UTC Tuesday ...
-
A teenager has been jailed for five years after admitting stabbing his stepfather to death in a row over a television. Moynul Haque, 18, pl...
-
(CNN) -- Amnesty International has raised concerns about the safety of civilians in areas of northern Mali now controlled by Tuareg and Isl...
-
WASHINGTON (AP) Despite tough talk from President Barack Obama, the United States and its allies have limited options if North Korea goes a...
-
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 28.1 km (17.5 miles), the quake hit at 11:52:23 UT...
-
(CNN) -- Anti-government fighters found the bodies of 78 people, apparently tortured to death, in a refrigerator at a hospital in Homs, Syr...
-
Egypt has reported the seventh and eighth cases of human infection with H5N1 avian influenza in 2012 according to a World Health Organizatio...
0 comments:
Post a Comment