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Russia: State TV Justifies May 6 Police Violence, Cites Spanish Bill Criminalizing Online Protest Organization as Example

Categories: Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe, Russia, Spain, Citizen Media, Digital Activism, Elections, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Law, Media & Journalism, Politics, Protest, Technology, RuNet Echo

In the final segment of the report [1] [ru] on the May 6 protest [2] in Moscow, which ended in clashes with riot police, the Russian state-owned Channel 1 mentioned, among other things, a Spanish draft law [3] [en] criminalizing online organization of public protests, as an example of the “much tougher” treatment of protesters by the “colleagues” of the Russian law enforcement officials “in the countries with the so-called established democracy.”