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Russian police detain opposition leader Lyubov Sobol
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Russian police detained 89 people in central Moscow during an unauthorised opposition protest on Saturday, independent monitoring group OVD-info reported. Russian police detain opposition leader Lyubov Sobol
Activist heading to rally against exclusion of candidates such as herself from Moscow election. Russian police detained 89 people in central Moscow during an unauthorised opposition protest on Saturday, independent monitoring group OVD-info reported.
Police in Moscow have detained a leading opposition figure as she was heading to an unauthorised rally protesting against the exclusion of independent and opposition candidates from the Moscow city council election.
Lyubov Sobol, who is one of the aspirants rejected from the ballot, was detained on Saturday in central Moscow and taken away in a police van.
The rally attempt comes a week after police detained nearly 1,400 protesters, beating some of them with truncheons.
Despite repeated warnings that police would take active measures against a protest on Saturday, activists aim to hold a march for about two and a half miles along the Boulevard Ring that circles central Moscow.
