“We tried to protest in opposition to conflict legal Putin, however then right here we had been illegally detained for 5 hours,” she instructed AFP.
Police Colonel N Batbayar mentioned the activists had been held for ignoring warnings in opposition to getting into a “safety space established on the sq. throughout Putin’s go to”.
“This was not an arrest,” he instructed AFP, including that seven individuals had been taken in to provide statements.
Different protesters gathered a few block from the Monument for the Politically Repressed, which honours those that suffered below Mongolia’s decades-long Soviet-backed communist rule.
Putin’s go to is being held to mark the eighty fifth anniversary of a decisive victory by Mongolian and Soviet forces over Imperial Japan.
