Investigators in Moscow are looking into whether any police officers breached rules on the use of force as part of efforts to disperse mass unauthorized protests in support of jailed opposition figure Alexey Navalny, last month.
On Wednesday, Tatyana Potyaeva, the city’s human rights ombudsman, told TASS that a series of checks were being conducted. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Russian capital, she said, “based on injuries received by citizens, who claim they were due to law enforcement agency employees, over 100 inspections are being carried out, the results of which will be sent for consideration.”
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