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WORLD NEWS Monday 3 april 2017

3 dozen reported arrested in Moscow protest attempts

at Manezhnaya Square, cal repression. served about half of a 2
which is adjacent to the Dadin gained prominence ½-year sentence.
Kremlin, according to po- in Russia’s opposition com- In St. Petersburg, one per-
lice figures reported by the munity after being the first son was arrested as about
state news agency Tass. person sentenced to prison 20 people tried to organize
Separately, well-known op- under harsh protest-sup- a small rally outside Gos-
position activist Ildar Dadin pression measures pushed tiny Dvor, a sprawling retail
was arrested while picket- through by the Kremlin in structure on the city’s main
ing outside a police station, 2014. avenue, the Interfax news
according to OVD-Info, a He said he was repeatedly agency cited police as
group that monitors politi- beaten in prison, where he saying.q

Police officers detain a man in the main street in Moscow, Rus-
sia, Sunday, April 2, 2017. Russian prosecutors have moved to
block calls on social networks ahead of street protests in Mos-
cow and other Russian cities following a wave of rallies.
(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
JIM HEINTZ Moscow. Pedestrians could
Associated Press only access Red Square
MOSCOW (AP) — Police in by passing through met-
Moscow detained about al detectors, and police
three dozen people at blocked off Pushkin Square,
unauthorized rallies in the traditionally a gathering
Russian capital on Sunday, point for demonstrations.
a week after anti-govern- Twenty-nine people were
ment protests broke out arrested while trying to
across the country. conduct a march on Trium-
The police presence was phalnaya Square and sev-
notably heavy in central en others were detained

Spain makes position clear on
Gibraltar’s post-Brexit future

JOSEPH WILSON “We have spoken to our
Associated Press fellow (EU) members and
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) institutions in recent weeks
— Spain’s top diplomat and have made clear
said Sunday that his gov- Spain’s position: when
ernment is urging the Eu- the U.K. leaves the EU, the
ropean Union to side with member nation of the EU is
Madrid on the future of the Spain, and in the case of
British territory of Gibraltar, Gibraltar the EU is there-
which lies at the southern fore obligated to side with
tip of the Iberian Peninsula Spain,” Dastis said. Brussels
and Spain has long sought suggested last week that
it was prepared to give
to reclaim. Spanish Foreign Spain such a veto, anger-
Minister Alfonso Dastis told ing and upsetting people
Spanish newspaper El Pais in Gibraltar. Spain has long
that Madrid insists it should sought to regain control of
get a veto over any agree- the strategic territory that it
ments regarding the strate- has longed to reclaim since
gic enclave as Britain pre- ceding its control to Britain
pares to leave the EU. in 1713.q