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October 27, 2012 16:08
Police detain Navalny, Yashin (Part 2)
MOSCOW. Oct 27 (Interfax) - Police have detained opposition leaders Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin in the center of Moscow.
Policemen surrounded Navalny and Yashin on Pokrovka Street and forced them into a police vehicle.
Navalny's press secretary Anna Veduta told Interfax that he had been brought to the Basmanny police department.
Other opposition activists supporting Navalny and Yashin responded to their detention with chanting 'Disgrace' and proceeded further along Pokrovka Street.
No other marchers have so far been detained.
Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov had reported earlier that he had been detained.
Police had warned the protesters through megaphones that their demonstration was unlawful and urged them to disperse.
More civil activists are staging solitary pickets on Moscow streets. They are standing at some distance from each other along Maroseika Street and Pokrovka Street and holding banners, some of which say 'We Cannot Be Intimidated', 'If We Do Not Come Today, They Will Come To Seize Us Tomorrow', 'Against Reprisals And Torture', 'Free Political Prisoners', 'Abductions And Torture Are Crimes', and others.
Several dozens of activists are walking toward the Investigative Committee headquarters in small groups.
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