Moscow Police Detain Navalny Mourners

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Police in Moscow have detained at least four people who were previously arrested at memorials to the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the
rights group OVD-Inforeported Tuesday.Hundreds werearrested across Russia for laying flowers at memorials in the days after Navalny died at
a remote Arctic prison on Feb
on Tuesday morning.All four had been detained at memorials to Navalny and released with warnings on Feb
17.OVD-Info said Mazur was being taken to court to face trial on a misdemeanor charge of breaching public assembly laws.The detentions come
less than a week after local mediareported that authorities began issuing warnings against public gatherings to mourners in other Russian
cities, including St
seeking to avoid mass crowds paying tribute to him ahead of the March 15-17 presidential election, which Vladimir Putin is certain to
mother over the weekend, more than a week after his death.