Russian police wrestled with demonstrators and arrested hundreds of people in Moscow on Saturday at a protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council.
OVD-Info, an organization that monitors political arrests, said 317 people had been detained an hour after the protest started, while the city police department said the number was 295, according to state news agency Tass.
The crowd appeared to number several thousand people, but there was no official estimate of its size.Police block a street during an unsanctioned rally in the center of Moscow, Russia, on July 27, 2019.Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition figure, had called Saturday's protest and was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for doing so.
Police presence was heavy at the mayor's office on Tverskaya Street, one of Moscow's main thoroughfares, with police trucks and buses parked in the building's courtyard and other buses positioned nearby to take detainees away.
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