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Kyrgyz police detain dozens at Women’s Day march

Kyrgyz police detain an activist of the Femen women’s movement on Victory Square during the celebration of International Women’s Day in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. – EPA pic, March 8, 2020.

POLICE in Kyrgyzstan detained dozens of protesters – most of them women – at a rally to mark International Women’s Day today, after masked men attacked them and tore up their placards. An AFP correspondent saw dozens of women detained and placed in police vehicles in the centre of the capital Bishkek where women’s groups had begun to rally against gender-based violence.

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