Siberian Rights Activist Detained Amid Election Controversy

Yekaterina Duntsova

Police in Siberia detained human rights activist Olga Suvorova on December 18 on her arrival in the city of Krasnoyarsk from Moscow, where she took part in the meeting of a group that proposed journalist Yekaterina Duntsova a day earlier as a candidate in the presidential election scheduled for March 17. Suvorova's detainment was linked to her complaint in October when she accused a police officer of attacking her. Police now accuse Suvorova of false denunciation. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities, click here.