{"id":7625,"date":"2010-08-27T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2010-08-27T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T11:23:43","slug":"human-rights-activists-arrested-at-u2-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/human-rights-activists-arrested-at-u2-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Activists Arrested At U2 Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Mick Meaney<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/u2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/u2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"u2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7627\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, 25th August, Russian police detained a number of Amnesty International workers outside a U2 gig in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The activists were handing out leaflets and collecting signatures outside the Luzhniki stadium , believing they had the correct permits but were detained because they did not have the necessary authorisation, a police spokeswoman said. They were released after a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>They were asking U2 fans to sign petitions urging Russian authorities to solve the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and activist Natalya Estemirova.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace director director Ivan Blokov told the media: &#8220;Our activities were agreed with U2&#8217;s management, so we are very much surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tents of Amnesty International, Greenpeace and the ONE foundation were removed by police, and we were not allowed to collect signatures and to talk to people. It was a typical publicity event, which this organisation has carried out in every city where U2 has performed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Nikitin, head of Amnesty International&#8217;s Russian branch, said: &#8220;I am very sad about what happened. I do not know if Bono knew about what happened to us, but I fear that he did not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mick Meaney On Wednesday, 25th August, Russian police detained a number of Amnesty International workers outside a U2 gig in Moscow. The activists were handing out leaflets and collecting signatures outside the Luzhniki stadium , believing they had the correct permits but were detained because they did not have the necessary authorisation, a police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}