Russian communists were arrested for celebrating the anniversary of the October revolution

On November 7, activists of the Russian Communist Party internationalists (RCPi) and their supporters were detained in Novosibirsk while attempting to lay flowers at the Memorial in the Square of Heroes of the Revolution. Eight people were detained and taken to the Central District Department of Internal Affairs. The reason for the arrest was formal disobedience of police orders to disperse. It was previously reported that the RCPi activists had received a denial from the mayor's office for holding a public event under the pretext that some research work on the Memorial's mural and mass graves would be conducted in the square that evening. (Incidentally, no work was taking place in the square.) The activists decided to hold a simple flower-laying event, not a picket. However, the police prevented them from even laying flowers.

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