{"id":1352832,"date":"2022-03-01T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352832"},"modified":"2022-03-01T14:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T19:25:51","slug":"pics-reports-claim-over-5000-detained-in-five-days-of-anti-war-protests-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pics-reports-claim-over-5000-detained-in-five-days-of-anti-war-protests-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pics: Reports Claim over 5,000 Detained in Five Days of Anti-War Protests in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpics-reports-claim-over-5000-detained-in-five-days-of-anti-war-protests-in-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1352832&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Ukrainian state media on Tuesday quoted an estimate from independent Russian human rights group OVD-Info that \u201cat least 6,474 people have already been detained during anti-war rallies that swept across Russia after Russian troops invaded Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOn Monday, 487 people were detained in 14 cities across the country. Most of them were arrested in Moscow (274) and in St. Petersburg (188). On the previous day, 2,802 people were detained in 56 cities,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-ato\/3416776-over-five-days-of-antiwar-protests-in-russia-6500-detained-rights-activists.html\"><span>Ukrinform<\/span><\/a><span> news service wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Ukrinform noted the Russian government warned its citizens they could be held criminally liable for participating in anti-war rallies \u2013 possibly even facing prosecution for \u201ctreason\u201d if convicted of \u201csupporting a foreign country\u201d by weakening the war effort \u2013 but demonstrations have still been held in cities across Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/police-detain-more-than-900-people-anti-war-protests-across-russia-monitoring-2022-02-27\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday cited OVD-Info data to estimate 5,500 total detentions at anti-war protests since Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20063018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238803613.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20063018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238803613-1024x661-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers detain a woman during a protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in central Moscow on February 27, 2022. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Sunday was an especially busy day for demonstrators because it marked the seventh anniversary of the murder of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/boris-nemtsov-the-man-who-dared-to-criticize-vladimir-putin\/a-52561085\"><span>Boris Nemtsov<\/span><\/a><span>, an opposition politician and outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin shot in the back by unknown assailants while strolling across a bridge in Moscow with his Ukrainian girlfriend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Protesters shouting \u201cNo to war!\u201d were dragged away by police from an improvised memorial to Nemtsov constructed on the bridge where he was killed. At least one independent Russian journalist was arrested despite showing valid press credentials to the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn Moscow, riot police often outnumbered protesters, some of whom carried hand-written placards with peace signs and anti-war slogans in Russian and Ukrainian. Some wore masks with the word \u2018Enough\u2019 emblazoned in the front,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/police-detain-more-than-900-people-anti-war-protests-across-russia-monitoring-2022-02-27\/\"><span>Reuters<\/span><\/a><span> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Putin regime cracked down on protesters by denying nearly all requests for permission to hold rallies, even \u201csingle-picket\u201d events with tiny numbers of socially-distanced demonstrators conceived as a way to work around restrictions justified with the Wuhan coronavirus. Speech controls have been expanded to include not only \u201cfake news,\u201d but online posts that \u201clibel\u201d the Russian government by strongly criticizing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20063026\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238802717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20063026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238802717-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in central Moscow on February 27, 2022. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20063090\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238728652.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20063090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238728652-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in Moscow on February 24, 2022.(ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20063194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238728111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20063194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238728111-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A man protests against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in Moscow on February 24, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cRoskomnadzor, the federal media and communications censorship agency, ordered Russian news outlets to report only information from official Russian sources. Several news outlets were subsequently ordered to cease independent news coverage of the invasion or were blocked,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/01\/thousands-russians-are-protesting-against-war-putins-not-likely-listen\/\"><i><span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>reported on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRoskomnadzor also began restricting access to social media, including Facebook and Twitter, further limiting information about the invasion \u2014 and blocking a popular means of organizing protests,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span>added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/photo\/2022\/02\/photos-weekend-global-protest-against-invasion-ukraine\/622951\/\"><span>Huge rallies<\/span><\/a><span> against the war are being held outside Russia as well. On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russia-complains-us-about-protests-near-its-diplomatic-facilities-2022-02-28\/\"><span>lodged<\/span><\/a><span> a complaint with the U.S. ambassador to Moscow over \u201chostile\u201d protests near its diplomatic facilities in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian state media on Tuesday quoted an estimate from independent Russian human rights group OVD-Info that \u201cat least 6,474 people have already been detained during anti-war rallies that swept across<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}