Russian prosecutors are seeking to take an infant child away from his parents after they brought him to an opposition protest in Moscow.
Russian prosecutors are seeking to take an infant child away from his parents after they brought him to an opposition protest in Moscow, a move condemned by human rights campaigners who called it part of a broader attempt by authorities to intimidate anti-Kremlin demonstrators.
The boy’s mother and father have rejected the case against them as invented, saying they were not near any clashes with police and that the man who held their child is a close relative. Dmitry Prokazov told the Russian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty that the case felt like a “surreal film.”
“It seems the Russian authorities are going to great lengths to basically dissuade and discourage people from continuing to protest,” she said. The protests in central Moscow have attracted several thousand people each weekend, sparked by authorities’ refusal to allow opposition candidates to take part in city council elections. In response, heavily-armored riot police with batons and wearing masks have roughly detained hundreds of people, often seemingly at random. Videos have shown police clubbing protesters on the ground.
“This story just fell right into that narrative and they really took off with it,” Gorbunova said. “In fact the only people who endangered others during this protest were the police,” she said.
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