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The police pretended to be journalists at a protest rally in Moscow

Two police officers worked at the rally in support of political prisoners on September 29 under the guise of employees of the TV channel TVC. This was explained in his Twitter representative of the libertarian party, Michael Lights.

As told to “Mediazone”, the Deputy Secretary of the Moscow steering Committee of the libertarian party of Russia Igor Efimov, at the rally he saw in the press two men with cameras and badges, which the organizers gave to all accredited journalists.

“I approached them and asked about accreditation. They got a press card TVC. I said that they should have accreditation from our press Secretary and a badge “Press”, which issued at the entrance and asked to leave. They laughed and with a smile showed me a brown Colonel with the major. New Russian journalism in uniform and with a badge,” — said Efimov.

 

On 29 September in Moscow held a consistent rally on Sakharov Avenue under the slogan “Let go” in support of the defendants in the “Moscow business” and all political prisoners. The rally was held peacefully and no arrests. According to the “White counter”, the rally was attended by over 25 thousand people, the Metropolitan police stated that the protest was attended by about 20 thousand people.

At the rally “Let go” organized by the “libertarian party”, came opposition politician Alexei Navalny, the lawyer of FBK, former candidate for the Moscow city Duma Lyubov Sobol, head of Krasnoselsky district of Moscow Ilya Yashin, a former state Duma Deputy Dmitry Gudkov, ex-mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman, the founder of “Yabloko” Grigory Yavlinsky, blogger and journalist Yuri Dude, TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva, actors Alexander palm, Alexandra Bortech, Nikita Kukushkin, rapper Face, the leader of group “Accident” Alexey Kortnev. In addition, the protest came former defendants in the “case on 27 July,” Valery the village of Kostenki, Vladislav Drums and Daniel Konon, who also addressed the meeting.

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