School kids ‘arrested in Russia over anti-war demo', according to opposition politician
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- 03 Mar 2022
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The photos were shared by an opposition politician after thousands across the country were detained for voicing opposition to Vladimir Putin’s war.
The pictures show children of school age in the back of a police van in Moscow after taking part in anti-war protests.
The kids were held when they reportedly went to lay flowers at the city’s Ukrainian embassy.
A girl wearing a green hat holds a sign saying ‘No War’ in Russian with small Russian and Ukrainian flags painted around the words.
Another girl in a pink puffer jacket carries flowers and she was pictured later in a police station, with an officer behind her at a computer.
The pictures were shared by Ilya Yashin on Twitter, who wrote: “Nothing out of the ordinary: just kids in paddy wagons behind an anti-war poster.
“This is Putin’s Russia, folks. You live here.”
Despite Putin’s ruthless quashing of any dissent against his regime, thousands of anti-war protesters have taken to the streets across Russia.
Nearly 1 million people signed an online petition demanding an end to the war.
Anti-war demonstrators in Russia have faced mass detentions while authorities have restricted access to social media and threatened to shut down independent news sites.
On Monday, the OVD-Info rights group that tracks political arrests counted at least 350 detentions of protesters in 13 Russian cities.
Over the past five days of protests, more than 6,000 people have been detained, according to OVD-Info.
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