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Javno.hr - Zagreb,Croatia
23 April 2007
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Russia To Probe Police Action
Prosecutors in Russia's second city have opened a criminal investigation into how police broke up an opposition rally last month, the St. Petersburg city government said in a statement on Monday.
Riot police used batons and arrested dozens of protesters during the anti-Kremlin rally, a precursor to two marches this month which were dispersed by riot police.
"On April 4 the prosecutor-general of the central district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case," the St. Petersburg government said in a statement about the March 3 demonstration.
The protests' leaders say they were staging a "march of the discontented" to resist what they call the Kremlin's tightening grip on power and to demand fair presidential polls next year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has to step down in 2008 after two four-year terms. The vote is scheduled for next March.
On March 3, at least 2,000 protesters broke through police lines in St Petersburg and blocked the city's main road. Police detained around 100 demonstrators at the rally, which had been banned by the authorities.
Yabloko, a liberal party that helped organise the march, had written to the St Petersburg government to demand an explanation for the police action.
Russian authorities have also come under pressure to explain police behaviour in two follow-up marches earlier this month when riot squads hit protesters with batons and arrested dozens.
The Kremlin said this week that police had over-reacted to the protests, although it said foreign media had exaggerated the scale. On Saturday the interior ministry said police had done their best not to give into provocation from protesters.
The march's organisers say they did not provoke police.
Officers also detained several journalists working for foreign news agencies and newspapers. A Reuters photographer was hit on the mouth during the protests, splitting his lip.
Russia's Foreign Correspondents' Association issued a statement on Monday calling for an investigation.
"We hope that the enquiries and investigations of those cases will be transparent," it said.
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