The Union of Journalists of St. Petersburg will lend legal assistance to three colleagues who were arrested on Saturday in time of an unauthorized March of Dissent in the center of the second Russian city of St. Petersburg.
The protest rally in St. Petersburg was attended by 100 people, 60 of whom were detained by police.
Three reporters from local media who had professional equipment had been detained when carrying their professional duties, Ruslan Linikov, editor in chief of the European magazine said.
The journalists were arrested despite they had shown their press identification cards, he said. The reporters had been kept for four hours in police station. Policemen released them only after having drawn up administrative violation protocols against them. Linikov said the journalists are accused of disobeying police officers and participation in authorized rally.
RIA Novosti
