ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Two days after widespread anti-government rallies, protesters in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, face a severe crackdown with local courts sending dozens of them to jail.
Tens of thousands took to the streets across Russia’s 11 time zones on Monday to protest government corruption. Some of the protests, like in Moscow and St. Petersburg, were explicitly banned by authorities and nearly 2,000 people were detained.
The crackdown on protesters appears to be particularly severe in St. Petersburg, Russia’s former imperial capital, where at least 26 people are sentenced to five to 14 days in jail, according to OVD-Info, a group that monitors political repression in Russia. The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of protesters detained in Moscow are eventually released, with the exception of a few opposition leaders.
Police form a human chain during an anti-corruption rally in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, June 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
— AP
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