US Calls Russia to Release Detained Opposition Politicians: America (US) has asked Russia (Russia) to release about 200 detained people. He was detained on Saturday from a meeting held in Moscow. Russia’s interior ministry issued a statement saying, “About 200 people have been arrested from Moscow.” This action has been taken at a time when there is tension in the country since the conviction of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
In this case, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted, “Stop the oppression of independent voices.” Blinken wrote, “Today the Russian government has detained around 200 municipal leaders and politicians, including political activists Vladimir Kara-Murja and Yulia Galliamina. We demand to end this oppression with independent voices.
Police came to the building
In the case, radio station Echo Moscow has said that this forum was scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. In which Municipal Corporation personnel, event organizers Andrey Pivovarov and Executive Director of Open Russia came from all over the country. Open Russia is a UK-based group formed by former exiled oil trader Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a critic of the Russian government. While this forum was going on, the police came to the building and started taking the people in it into custody. The Russian government has said, “Investigations are being conducted on these people taken into custody on Saturday. According to the law, a decision will be taken in the case.
Protests for Navalny
Talking about Navalny, he had been fighting the fight against corruption for a long time and is the biggest critic of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Navalny was poisoned by a nerve agent, for which he blamed the Russian government. At the same time, when Navalny returned from Germany after receiving his treatment, he was arrested. Later, he was also sentenced to more than two years in jail. There were a lot of protests in Russia demanding his release. The government not only took violent action against them to silence the protesters, as well as thousands of people were arrested.