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Prominent Russian activist detained after Moscow anti-war protest

Longtime activist with Memorial and human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov [File: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP]

Oleg Orlov, a prominent Russian human rights activist, has been detained after staging a one-man protest in Moscow’s Red Square against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Members of Memorial, a now-banned human rights organisation of which Orlov had been a leader, shared a video of him on Sunday holding a banner before being taken away by police.

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