MOSCOW: Police have detained Lyubov Sobol, a prominent opposition activist, ahead of the planned protest in Moscow demanding free elections.
Thousands of Russian opposition protesters are expected to try and rally again in Moscow on Saturday despite a sweeping police crackdown and ban on the event, Reuters reported.
Sobol, who is on hunger strike, was detained in a taxi as she tried to make her way to the protest and driven off in a police van.
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