No less than 110 individuals have been arrested in varied Russian cities throughout tributes to opposition chief Alexei Navalny, who died yesterday below suspicious circumstances on the IK-Three jail in Siberia, sparking a brand new political disaster in Vladimir Putin's authorities. which the West accuses of being behind the demise of its important adversary.
The arrests, a lot of them only for inserting flowers in squares to say goodbye to him, passed off largely in St. Petersburg, Putin's hometown, in keeping with OVD-Information, a corporation that defends the rights of arrested opponents.
There have been additionally prisoners in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar and different cities within the European a part of Russia and Siberia.
Additionally, the Police has collected the private information of all of the individuals in these occasions, together with the reporters who got here to cowl them.
Russian police arrest a person who wished to put flowers at a Navalny memorial. AP picture.
These arrested on the marches in honor of Navalny. (AP Photograph)Since Friday, the nation's legislation enforcement and brokers have been attempting to take away all memorials created by Navalny's supporters, each at monuments to victims of political repression and at makeshift websites.
This occurred, in keeping with native Telegram channels, in entrance of the Kremlin on the bridge the place opposition chief Boris Nemtsov was killed in 2015.
In response to the native press, many individuals have paid tribute to the chief of the opposition for the reason that day earlier than by inserting flowers or inserting candles in designated locations of their cities.
1000’s of Russians in exile took to the streets to protest what they see as a Kremlin-ordered killing and demanded extra motion in European, American and Latin American cities on Saturday.
Navalny, 47, died all of the sudden on Friday within the Arctic jail the place he had been held since final December, in keeping with Russian jail providers.
The Russian opposition and unbiased press and Western international ministries have been in unison accusing Putin of ordering the assassination of Navalny, the Kremlin's primary enemy for 15 years.
There have been protests all over the world accusing Putin of homicide. Within the picture, the mobilization on the door of the Russian consulate in Poland. Photograph Reuters.Navalny, who was serving an almost 30-year jail sentence, was transferred to an Arctic jail in December after asserting a marketing campaign towards Putin's re-election in March's presidential election.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov thought of “unacceptable” the accusations made by the West earlier than the outcomes of the post-mortem have been identified.
“Putin killed him,” Navalny's crew mentioned after visiting his mom in jail
A lady carrying a masks believed to be Alexei Navalny's mom after being launched from the jail the place Putin's opponent died. Photograph Reuters.The mom of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has right this moment visited the Arctic jail the place her son died all of the sudden on Friday amid accusations towards the Kremlin of homicide.
As Radio Liberty stories, Lyudmila Navalnaya flew this morning from Moscow to town of Salekhard, within the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
The mom then drove to the city of Jarp, the place the IK-Three jail is situated, to which her son was transferred final December.
Liudmila Naválnaya, who assured that she doesn’t wish to obtain consolations, met her opponent in the identical place on February 12. “He was wholesome and joyful to be alive,” the politician's mom wrote on Fb on Friday.
“Putin killed him”denounced the crew of late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny after his mom visited to obtain a demise certificates from jail officers.