After backing down over journalist, Russian police arrest hundreds at Moscow protest.
A day after Russian police dropped charges against a prominent journalist following an unprecedented public outcry, police in Moscow arrested more than 400 demonstrators who took to the streets to demand accountability and call for the release of other prisoners.
At least two thousand people took to the streets, and police moved in aggressively to arrest hundreds of them, among them well over a dozen independent journalists. The arrests suggested that, despite their remarkable retreat over Golunov, Russian authorities have no intention of loosening controls over political opposition.
“Nothing like this has happened in Russia for decades,” wrote Novaya Gazeta, a celebrated investigative newspaper that has seen authorities repeatedly stymy investigations into the murders of several of its own journalists.
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