FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition politician Lyubov Sobol, who is on a hunger strike to protest over her exclusion from the elections to Moscow City Duma, the capital's regional parliament, attends an interview with Reuters in Moscow, Russia July 31, 2019. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police forcibly detained over 800 people attending a protest in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections, including prominent activist Lyubov Sobol, after authorities warned the demonstration was illegal.
Police removed Sobol, an ally of jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, from a taxi and bundled her into a van minutes before the start of what anti-Kremlin activists described as a peaceful walk to protest against the exclusion of their candidates from an election next month.
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