By Reuters
BERLIN - The German government said it was very concerned about Russian police arresting more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election.
Law enforcement officers detain a participant of a rally calling for opposition candidates to be registered for elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital's regional parliament, in Moscow, Russia July 27, 2019.
(REUTERS / Tatyana Makeyeva / MANILA BULLETIN)
“The German government expects the people who have been detained to be released quickly,” a spokeswoman for the German government told a news conference on Monday.
It was one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power.