Russian police arrested around 3,000 protesters across Russia on Saturday in a dramatic crackdown against nation-wide demonstrations demanding the Kremlin release Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.
“Navalny was arrested on Jan. 17 when he returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from a severe nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin and which Russian authorities deny,” The Associated Press reported Saturday. “Authorities say his stay in Germany violated terms of a suspended sentence in a 2014 criminal conviction, while Navalny says the conviction was for made-up charges.”
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