“As of 1836 GMT, more than 1,113 people had already been detained in 38 cities,” said the independent organization OVD-Info, which monitors arrests and has been declared a foreign agent in Russia.
The human rights organization reports detainees in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yakutsk, Ulan-Ude, Arkhangelsk, Korolev, Voronezh, Zheleznogorsk, Izhevsk, Tomsk, Salavato, , Surgut, Smolensk, Belgorod and other cities.
The Moscow prosecutor’s office warned that organizing and participating in illegal actions will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
Spreading calls to participate in illegal actions or to commit other illegal acts on social networks is also subject to administrative or criminal penalties.
Source: El heraldo
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