By Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government said it was very concerned about Russian police arresting more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election.
“The German government expects the people who have been detained to be released quickly,” a spokeswoman for the German government told a news conference on Monday.
It was one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power.
(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Paul Carrel)
