Moscow Police Detain Children Holding Anti-War Placard

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Police in Moscow detained two women and five children who wanted to lay flowers at the Ukrainian Embassy as day six of Russia's deadly
invasion of Ukraine came to a close Tuesday.Researcher Alexandra Arkhipova said the children aged 7 to 11 were initially held with their
mothers in a police van before being taken to a police station and eventually released hours later
Arkhipova, an anthropologist at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, wrote on Facebook about the
wrote.The OVD-Info website, which monitors protests and arrests across Russia, points out that children up to the age of 14 cannot be
legally held for more than three hours.It said that authorities have arrested more than 320 anti-war protesters across 33 Russian cities
war, which has led to displacement, civilian deaths and triggered unprecedented Western sanctions.