Scared Russian kids locked up after rally
A RUSSIAN child in a detention cell clings to her mother while others peer through bars in a police van in shocking video images yesterday.
Ekaterina Zavizion, 37, was detained with her weeping daughter Sofya, seven – one of five children locked up after an anti-war protest in Moscow.
In the video, Sofya clutches her mother’s hand and asks: “Why are you sitting there? Will they let you go?”, to which she replies: “Because they do not allow many people to gather together so they don’t say they are against the war.”
Screaming
Explaining her own actions, Ms Zavizion said: “I watched videos showing the horrible inhumane bombing in Kharkiv and realised I could no longer sit under a bush shaking and pretend nothing was happening. I had the most peaceful intentions – to lay flowers in the memory of civilians and children who had perished in Ukraine.”
On being detained, she added: “It was surreal, I was not prepared for it. The children started screaming.
“It was hell. God, I will never forget those minutes.”
Meanwhile, the man who wants to oust Vladimir Putin
Uncowed…Navalny
has called from his prison cell for further daily protests across the globe against the “insane tsar”. Jailed lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny spoke out as it was reported that 6,840 anti-war demonstrators have been taken into custody in Russia since the invasion began on February 24. Navalny, 45, urged: “Let’s at least not become a nation of frightened, silent people, of cowards who pretend not to notice the aggressive war against Ukraine unleashed by our obviously insane tsar.” From the jail where he is serving a sentence for “political crimes”, he added: “The main phrase from my childhood was ‘fight for peace’.
“I call on everyone to come out on to the streets and fight for peace…Putin is not Russia.”