Several people detained in central Moscow following rally - police
MOSCOW. March 8 (Interfax) - Several people were detained in central Moscow on Friday after the end of a rally previously cleared by the authorities, the Moscow city police department told Interfax.
"About 100 people were taking part in a rally in Novopushkinsky Park on Friday, which had been agreed upon with executive authorities. At the end of the rally, a group of people appeared and started chanting mottos not previously cleared and violating the rules for holding rallies," a police spokesperson said.
The organizers stopped the rally and urged the demonstrators to disperse, he said.
The people who violated rally rules were brought to a police station, where a procedural decision should be made in their relation, he said.
Some online media reported earlier that a rally under the motto 'Feminism Is Liberation' had been planned in Moscow on Friday.
The Yabloko party press service said in a statement later in the day that "police detained 17 participants in a rally in support for women's rights, which was arranged at the Yabloko party's initiative in Novopushkinsky Park today."
"Most of those detained are anarcho-feminists, who were distributing a feminist newspaper," it said.
"The detentions were also provoked by so-called Orthodox activists," it said.
