Navalny protests: UK condemns Russian police after more than 5,000 people arrested at protests [View all]
Source: Sky News
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Riot police left some protesters bloody and badly beaten on January 31...
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called on the Kremlin to release those detained in the demonstrations - as Sky News' Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay described a "vast police presence" acting as a "ring of steel" around the centre of the capital.
Mr Raab said in a statement: "We condemn the Russian authorities' indiscriminate and arbitrary arrest of peaceful protesters and journalists.
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Amnesty International said so many people were arrested in Moscow that detention centers in the capital had "run out of space" and people were being held in deportation facilities.
“This is the biggest protest phenomenon in the entire time of Putin's presidency, in all 20 years. It will be difficult to estimate its size, but its geography -- the number of cities -- is unprecedented. We see a different generation of protesters who are not afraid,” Kirill Rogov, a political analyst, told the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/navalny-protests-hundreds-arrests-as-rallies-break-out-across-russia-12204181
Protests are growing larger in Russia and they can't detain every protester.
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