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May 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Russia is seriously concerned over recent “aggressive” arrests of
demonstrators in Chicago and Montreal and hopes that the U.S. and
Canadian authorities will react to public rallies with restraint, the
Russian Foreign Ministry’s ombudsman for human rights, Konstantin
Dolgov, said on Monday.
Mass arrests of supporters of the Occupy movement in Chicago and
students protesting against the hike in university tuition fees in
Montreal took place over the past few days.
“Despite the fact that citizens’ protests were peaceful in most of
the cases, especially in the beginning, U.S. and Canadian police
officers have used disproportionate force [against protesters],” Dolgov
said.
The authorities “have the right to respond adequately to violations
of public order and facts that demonstrate clearly the existence of a
threat to public security,” he said.
“Meanwhile, we should point out that mass aggressive arrests of
peaceful demonstrators in Chicago (where about 50 people have been
arrested over a few days) and in Montreal (where 200 people have been
arrested), accompanied by the use of so-called acoustic cannons, cannot
but cause serious concern,” Dolgov said.
Dolgov’s statement repeated his May 17 criticism of the reaction by
U.S. and some EU member states’ authorities to street protests.
The statements appear to come as a response to Western criticism of
the Russian government’s handling of recent opposition protests that
took place in Moscow and other major cities, triggered by allegations of
mass fraud in last December’s parliamentary elections. Some of those
protests were peaceful, while others were dispersed by police, and
dozens of activists were detained.
Moscow – May 22, 2012 – RIA.NOVOSTI
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