More than 10,000 people have been detained at recent rallies in Russia in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a protest monitor said on Wednesday, adding that many of them have also been subject to mistreatment while in police custody.
Navalny called on Russians to take to the streets after he was detained last month on arrival in Moscow from Germany where he had been recovering from a poisoning with a Soviet-designed nerve agent.
Hundreds more filled the streets of the capital Moscow Tuesday evening, after Navalny, 44, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence on embezzlement charges he claims were a pretext to silence him.
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WNU Editor: I think the numbers are higher. I have been told that the prisons are full, and they are using makeshift buildings to house those who have been arrested. I have also been hearing a lot of stories of abuse and mistreatment from sources that I trust .... Women protesting Alexei Navalny’s sentence reportedly forced to strip (NYPost)
