On 28 March, 34 people detained during Sunday's protests were sent to administrative detention. Image: OVD-Info
. Today, we start a new partnership with OVD-Info, an NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday, we’ll bring you the latest information on freedom of assembly.
The past week’s main event has been, of course, the mass arrests across Russia in connection with Sunday’s anti-corruption protests. Moscow is leading the numbers. According to our monitoring, the city has seen an unprecedented number of detentions — 1,043 people at 53 police stations in the Russian capital.
