"Capitalism is shit": officers in Barvhikha demonstrate protesters' banner inside the police station. Source: Left Bloc.On Saturday, at least 40 people were detained in Moscow at the “Anti-Capitalism 2017” march that had been held without official permission. On Monday, court proceedings began against Sergei Udaltsov and other activists of the Other Russia organisation, who had been arrested at the march. Most of the trials were postponed, but Udaltsov was sentenced to five days in jail, whereupon he declared a hunger strike.
Also on Saturday: nine Left Bloc activists, who were tried to hold a protest outside elite housing in Moscow’s Barvikha district, were detained as they arrived at the nearby commuter train station. On Monday they were tried and given sentences ranging from three to 14 days in jail.
The deputy chair of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Ilmi Umerov, was sentenced to two years in a low-security prison colony for calling, live on television, for Crimea to be returned to Ukraine. This was despite the fact that the prosecution had asked for Umerov to be given a suspended sentence. The court considered it necessary to hand down a more severe sentence. Under the same article of the Criminal Code on separatism, Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena was given a 30-month suspended sentence for his article “A Blockade is a Necessary First Step towards the Liberation of Crimea” published on the website Crimea. Realities.
The latest news about prosecutions that followed anti-corruption rallies earlier this year is as follows:
