SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

Protest leader among ‘600’

arrested in Moscow rallies

Police officers detain opposition candidate and lawyer Lyubov Sobol (AP)

OLIVER CARROLL

IN MOSCOW

Lyubov Sobol, one of the only Russian protest leaders not yet to have been arrested, is among hundreds
detained by riot police in Moscow.

A group of approximately 15 riot police descended on the politician, currently on day 21 of a hunger strike,
shortly after she left her central Moscow campaign headquarters for the start of yesterday’s rally.

Ms Sobol, a close associate of Russia’s most prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny, has been
protesting against the exclusion of opposition candidates from Moscow city elections planned for

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