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| Putin critic Navalny arrested at Moscow protest | Putin critic Navalny arrested at Moscow protest |
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| Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested at a protest in Moscow, hours after being given a suspended sentence for fraud. | Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been arrested at a protest in Moscow, hours after being given a suspended sentence for fraud. |
| His brother Oleg had been given a three-and-a-half-year prison term for the same offence. | His brother Oleg had been given a three-and-a-half-year prison term for the same offence. |
| Navalny had tweeted a picture of himself on the way to the Manezh Square rally and was later pictured there. | Navalny had tweeted a picture of himself on the way to the Manezh Square rally and was later pictured there. |
| He says the charges were politically motivated and linked to his opposition to President Vladimir Putin. | He says the charges were politically motivated and linked to his opposition to President Vladimir Putin. |
| Navalny had called on his supporters to "take to the streets" after the sentencing. | Navalny had called on his supporters to "take to the streets" after the sentencing. |
| He then tweeted a selfie on a metro carriage, with the caption: "House arrest- yes. But today I really want to be with you. That's why I'm going too #Manezhka". | He then tweeted a selfie on a metro carriage, with the caption: "House arrest- yes. But today I really want to be with you. That's why I'm going too #Manezhka". |
| Upon arriving at the rally, police detained the opposition leader and put him into a police van. | |
| After his arrest, he sent a tweet saying that he "had not got as far as the square". | |
| "I call on everyone not to leave until they are forced to," he said. "They cannot arrest everyone". | |
| Just before his arrest, he told reporters that his motivation was "not my brother, my family, myself or some specific people" but "this disgusting outrage that has been going for many years". | |
| Television pictures from Manezh Square showed hundreds of people gathered in temperatures below -10C. | |
| Relatives 'targeted' | |
| Alexei Navalny was visibly angry when his brother Oleg was given a three-year custodial sentence for fraud. | |
| He accused President Vladimir Putin of targeting his relatives in order to get to him. | |
| Prosecutors had earlier demanded 10 years in prison for Alexei Navalny and eight years for his brother Oleg. | |
| Alexei Navalny had been under house arrest since February as part of a five-year suspended sentence for the alleged theft of 16m roubles from a timber firm in 2009. | |
| He is the most high-profile opposition figure in Russia and came second in Moscow's mayoral election last year, with 27% of the vote. |