800 people attending a protest in Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections were forcibly detained.<br />Prominent activist Lyubov Sobol was among those taken into custody, after authorities warned the demonstration was illegal.<br />Anti-Kremlin activists described it as a peaceful walk to protest against the exclusion of their candidates from a local election.<br />Reuters reports police removed Sobol from a taxi and bundled her into a van minutes before the start of the demonstration.
