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The security forces carried out a harsh crackdown on protesters in Khabarovsk (Photo: teamnavalnykhv via Twitter)
In Russia’s Khabarovsk, where protests in defense of detained former local governor Sergei Furgal have lasted for more than three months, security agents used force against protesters.
According to the Far East edition of DVHab, it was «the harshest dispersal “of the demonstration during the entire time of the protest actions in Khabarovsk.
According to media reports, after Khabarovsk residents started setting up tents near the Khabarovsk Territory Government building, one of the police officers demanded to remove them and threatened to use force in case of disobedience.
Soon the local OMON began to violently disperse the rally and Rosguard cars were seen in the central square. The security forces beat the protesters with batons and threw them to the ground. In total, according to the newspaper, 25 people were arrested.
Among the victims, the head of the local headquarters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny Alexei Vorsin, as well as the owner «Wagon “ (minibus with slogans in support of the protesters, one of the symbols of the protest in Khabarovsk) Andrei Maklygin, the latter lost consciousness due to a blow to the head with a baton.
Let us remind you that the protests in Khabarovsk have been going on for more than three months. They began after the arrest of the governor of the region, Sergei Furgal, accused of organizing the murders of businessmen in the early 2000s. He was taken to Moscow and arrested for two months.
On July 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin removed Furgal from office. «in connection with the loss of confidence ”and appointed the acting governor of the State Duma deputy of the Liberal Democratic Party Mikhail Degtyarev.
At different times, actions of solidarity with the citizens of Khabarovsk were carried out in other cities of Russia: Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Moscow, Krasnodar, Yakutsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk.
