59 Detained as Opposition Seeks to Revive Occupy Movement (Video)
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Fifty-nine protesters were detained in Moscow this week as the opposition attempted to revive the local Occupy movement that started last May, according to OVD-Info, a detention monitoring site.
Most of those detained were issued misdemeanor charges or released without charges.
On Saturday, the opposition held a weekly "freedom walk" on Red Square in support of the suspects in the criminal case over violence at last May's anti-Kremlin rally on Bolotnaya Ploshchad, but no one was arrested. Later that day, police detained nine people at a bicycle rally meant to show solidarity with Alexei Gaskarov, one of the suspects.
On Thursday, 19 activists, including an 11-year-old boy with his mother, were detained at a protest on Chistye Prudy intended to mark the anniversary of the OccupyAbai opposition camp, which was established and subsequently dispersed by police last May.
(Video and more text at the link.)
