Six people were detained in Russia for carrying anti-corruption slogans during government-organized anti-terrorism rallies
Six people were detained in Moscow during a rally in memory of the St. Petersburg Metro terrorist attack victims - five activists and journalist Denis Styazshkin, who photographed the rally in Gorky Park.
At a similar event organized by the authorities in Barnaul (Altai Krai), 8 people were detained. On a video taken by Anton Podchasov, an activist from Barnaul, it can be seen that those detained were either people with anti-corruption posters or those who criticized the authorities.
Public rallies, organized by the authorities, were held in a number of large cities in Siberia and the Volga region.
At the same time in Krasnoyarsk, visitors were given leaflets with information about the 14 victims of the April 3rd St. Petersburg Metro terrorist attack.
According to the rallies’ leadership which is mostly comprised of youth, veteran, and other public organizations, at least several thousand people took part in the events.
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin’s administration instructed the regional authorities to hold organized rallies on April 8th with antiterrorist slogans, "especially in those regions where the protest rallies took place on March 26th."