03:10Police detained protesters gathered in Moscow's centre on Tuesday evening in support of jailed opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
Several separated columns of demonstrators marched along Tverskaya, Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Petrovka streets and gathered at Pushkinskaya and Manezhnaya squares.
Law enforcement officers could be seen detaining protesters after they repeatedly urged them to disperse the unauthorised rally. The crowd could also be seen running away from the police.
The official number of detainees has not been announced yet.
Mass events have been banned in Moscow and some other Russian cities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Calls for the unauthorised action appeared on social media soon after Moscow's Simonovsky District Court ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
The court gave Navalny, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, a two-year and eight-month term considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack. On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.
Russia: Police detain protesters gathered in central Moscow following Navalny's sentencing
Police detained protesters gathered in Moscow's centre on Tuesday evening in support of jailed opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
Several separated columns of demonstrators marched along Tverskaya, Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Petrovka streets and gathered at Pushkinskaya and Manezhnaya squares.
Law enforcement officers could be seen detaining protesters after they repeatedly urged them to disperse the unauthorised rally. The crowd could also be seen running away from the police.
The official number of detainees has not been announced yet.
Mass events have been banned in Moscow and some other Russian cities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Calls for the unauthorised action appeared on social media soon after Moscow's Simonovsky District Court ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
The court gave Navalny, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, a two-year and eight-month term considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack. On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.
Police detained protesters gathered in Moscow's centre on Tuesday evening in support of jailed opposition activist Alexei Navalny.
Several separated columns of demonstrators marched along Tverskaya, Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Petrovka streets and gathered at Pushkinskaya and Manezhnaya squares.
Law enforcement officers could be seen detaining protesters after they repeatedly urged them to disperse the unauthorised rally. The crowd could also be seen running away from the police.
The official number of detainees has not been announced yet.
Mass events have been banned in Moscow and some other Russian cities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Calls for the unauthorised action appeared on social media soon after Moscow's Simonovsky District Court ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
The court gave Navalny, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, a two-year and eight-month term considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack. On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.