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Putin's Rights Adviser Calls For Minister's Resignation
April 23, 2007
Ella Pamfilova (file photo) (official site)
In an interview in the "Kommersant" daily, Ella Pamfilova says police illegally beat up and detained protesters during the so-called March of Dissent rallies in Moscow and St. Petersburg on April 14 and 15.
The State Duma is due on April 24 to form a commission to investigate police abuse during the rallies.
March organizers said today that they intend to hold a new rally in the center of Nizhny Novgorod on April 28, despite an official ban.
(Interfax, "Kommersant")
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