: Russia: Over 3,000 detained at protests demanding Alexei Navalny’s release #IndiaNEWS The Russian police on Saturday detained more than 3,000 people, and used force to break up rallies as as tens

Russia: Over 3,000 detained at protests demanding Alexei Navalny’s release #IndiaNEWS
The Russian police on Saturday detained more than 3,000 people, and used force to break up rallies as as tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to demand the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Reuters reported. The activist’s wife Yulia Navalnaya was briefly detained at a rally before being released. Navalny was arrested on January 17 as he returned to Russia from Germany for the first time since being poisoned with a nerve agent, which he alleges was done by the government of President Vladimir Putin. The opposition leader had given a call to his supporters to protest after he was immediately taken into custody from an airport in Moscow.The 44-year-old was accused of flouting the terms of a suspended sentence for embezzlement in a case that could see Navalny jailed for three-and-a-half years. The activist maintained that the charges against him are trumped-up. Saturday’s protests took place on an unprecedented geographic scale, spanning more than 100 cities across Russia, according to AFP. Previous large-scale opposition demonstrations – held in 2012 and 2019 – were largely centralised in Moscow. At least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, as per Reuters estimate. But Russia’s interior ministry put the number of protestors at 4,000.Moscot?&???[??]X?H?????[????XY[?H

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