3 years ago
Russian police have detained more than 500 protesters as they took to the streets across the country demanding the release of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. In Moscow police have closed metro stations and are restricting movement in the city centre. Reuters said- Twenty people have been already detained there.
Mr Navalny was jailed on his return to Russia after recovering from an attempt to kill him with a nerve agent. He is accused of not complying with a suspended sentence.
Navalny had just arrived from Berlin, where he spent months recovering from the near-fatal attack. Russian authorities say he was supposed to report to police regularly because of a suspended sentence for embezzlement.
Alexey Navalny has denounced his detention as "blatantly illegal", saying the authorities knew he was being treated in Berlin for the Novichok poisoning, which happened in Russia last August.
