Succes schreef op 24 september 2022 18:43:
Putin Should Worry: Russians Are Protesting Moscow’s Ukraine War Escalation
More Than 1,300 Russian Protesters Arrested As Putin Escalates War – More than 1,300 Russian protesters were detained earlier this week as rallies rage across Russia. In the capital city of Moscow, hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a “partial mobilization” of the military to Ukraine.
Protesters chanted “no war!” and others called for Putin to be sent into the trenches with the soldiers, according to reports by The Moscow Times. Photographs shared by the Russian news outlet showed how anti-war protesters were dragged away by police officers and pinned to the ground and arrested.
OVD-Info, a human rights watchdog, revealed how at least 1,252 people were arrested from 38 cities across Russia as of Wednesday. By Friday, the figure had risen to 1,348, and the OVD-Info website also revealed that 10 political criminal court cases were taking place over the next week.
Russia’s Interior Ministry responded to the arrests, describing “additional measures” that have been taken to respond to the anti-Putin protests.
“In a number of regions, attempts were made to carry out unauthorized actions, which gathered an extremely small number of participants. All of them were stopped, and the persons who committed offenses were detained and taken to the territorial police units for investigation and prosecution,” a statement reads.
Video footage shared online showed the scale of the protests all over the country, which ranged from small and peaceful protests by older residents to larger protests from younger activists.
One video showed peaceful protesters in Russian-occupied Snihurivka, in the Mykolaiv region, gathering and holding Ukrainian flags.
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