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The Guardian: Russian activists arrested for sexual harassment protest

By The Guardian.
Police officers arrest an activist holding a cardboard cut of Russian Parliament member Leonid Slutsky during a protest in front of the State Duma in Moscow on April 3, 2018. Several reporters with Western or independent media have accused Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in parliament's lower house, the State Duma, of making lewd sexual comments and groping. / AFP PHOTO / Mladen ANTONOV
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Three Russian activists have been arrested and charged with staging an unlawful protest in what they claim is an official backlash against their campaign for sexual harassment allegations made against MP Leonid Slutsky to be taken seriously.

Authorities arrested Alena Popova, Anastasiya Glushkova and Anastasiya Alekseeva last week on the charge of having organized a mass event without permission after they protested with a cardboard cutout of Slutsky outside of the State Duma in Moscow.

 

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