Protesters across Russia hold marches for jailed opposition leader Navalny [View all]
Washington Post
By Robyn Dixon and Isabelle Khurshudyan
Jan. 23, 2021 at 9:13 a.m. EST
MOSCOW — More than 1,000 people were arrested Saturday as protesters took to the streets across Russia calling for the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny — a broad show of defiance against President Vladimir Putin and his widening crackdowns against critics. Navalny's wife Yulia was among those detained.
The rallies — in nearly 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East to central Moscow — came less than a week after Navalny returned from Germany, where he recovered from a nerve agent poisoning in August during a trip to Siberia. Navalny was arrested shortly after stepping off the plane.
Some 40,000 people participated in the Moscow protest, the Reuters news agency reported, while police said 4,000 people took part. Tens of thousands of others joined protests across the country.
According to human rights monitoring group OVD-Info, at least 1,090 people were arrested around Russia.
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