Middle East Times
Friday 8th March, 2013
Sixteen people were arrested Friday for shouting unauthorized slogans at a permitted rally in Moscow to celebrate International Women’s Day, police said. Organizers halted the rally and asked everyone to leave when the arrests started, RIA Novosti reported. The rally, under the slogan “Feminism is Liberation,” was organized by the Yabloko or Russian United Democratic Party. “A rally, which had been agreed on with the authorities, took place on Friday in Novopushkinsky Square, involving around 100 people,” the Interior Ministry said in a news release. “At the end of the really, a group of ci…
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