Moscow police break up protest, detain 23

Moscow police detained 23 people on Wednesday and broke up a protest camp in downtown which was set up eight days ago, following Vladimir Putin's inauguration.

Source: Tanjug

Wednesday, 16.05.2012.

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Moscow police detained 23 people on Wednesday and broke up a protest camp in downtown which was set up eight days ago, following Vladimir Putin's inauguration. A local Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the authorities to break up the rally because of noise and other complaints from residents and the police carried out their operation around 5:00 local time. Moscow police break up protest, detain 23 The police have stated that the protesters put up no resistance and that some of those detained will be released after being issued a warning while others will be booked and potentially fined, AFP says. "Everything happened in accordance with the spirit of the law," Deputy District Police Chief Yury Zdorenko pointed out. According to AFP, some of the activists immediately moved to another central Moscow location to continue a sit-in. The rallies swelled to a few thousand as people finished work but shrank to just a few dozen activists overnight. The sit-in referred to itself as "Occupy Abay" - a reference to the massive statue of the 19th century Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayuli that sits at the top of a leafy boulevard in Moscow's upscale Chistye Prudy district. Police are seen detaining a protester in Moscow (Beta) Tanjug

Moscow police break up protest, detain 23

The police have stated that the protesters put up no resistance and that some of those detained will be released after being issued a warning while others will be booked and potentially fined, AFP says.

"Everything happened in accordance with the spirit of the law," Deputy District Police Chief Yury Zdorenko pointed out.

According to AFP, some of the activists immediately moved to another central Moscow location to continue a sit-in.

The rallies swelled to a few thousand as people finished work but shrank to just a few dozen activists overnight.

The sit-in referred to itself as "Occupy Abay" - a reference to the massive statue of the 19th century Kazakh poet Abay Kunanbayuli that sits at the top of a leafy boulevard in Moscow's upscale Chistye Prudy district.

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