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City Hall Refuses Permission for Magnitsky Rally

The Moscow Times

Moscow City Hall has refused to grant permission for a March 24 protest against alleged police misconduct in the case of former Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, protest organizer Natalia Pelyevina said in an email to journalists.

Pelyevina, who is coordinator for the organization Committee for Democratic Russia, told Interfax that City Hall based the refusal on the grounds that the event “may influence the judicial process” in the Magnitsky case.

The group had planned an event for March 24 on Kaluzhskaya Ploshchad as a show of support for Magnitsky’s relatives and to protest what it called “police violence” in the case.