Russian police crack down on demonstrators in central Moscow, beating some people and arresting more than 1,000 protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow city council.
Police officers detain people during an unsanctioned rally in the center of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, July 27, 2019. Russian police on Saturday began arresting people outside the Moscow mayor's office ahead of an election protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council.
Police wrestled with protesters around the mayor’s office, sometimes charging into the crowd with their batons raised. State news agencies Tass and RIA-Novosti cited police as saying 1,074 were arrested over the course of the protests, which lasted more than seven hours. The protesters, who police said numbered about 3,500, shouted slogans including “Russia will be free!” and “Who are you beating?” One young woman was seen bleeding heavily after being struck on the head.
Police eventually dispersed protesters from the area of the mayor’s office, but many demonstrators reassembled at a square about a kilometer away, where new arrests began, with police beating some to the ground with wide truncheon swings while other demonstrators tried to push them away.
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