Moscow police on Sunday arrested five civil rights activists taking part in a public stroll in the same areas where a week earlier police had attacked and arrested demonstrators. Around two dozen persons followed a call by civil rights groups simply to take a stroll in central Moscow in the areas where a week earlier special OMON police forces, using batons, charged and beat up marchers in a protest demonstration against President Vladimir Putin, according to dpa. She noted that the participants on Sunday were neither carrying any posters nor chanting any slogans. "Apparently you can no longer even take a stroll," Alexeyeva said. In a related development, the human rights representative for Putin, Ella Pamfilova, demanded the resignation of Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev over the previous week's violent police action against the anti-Putin demonstrators in Moscow and St. Petersburg. -- SPA
