- Title: UKRAINE: FURTHER ARRESTS MADE AFTER ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS.
- Date: 10th March 2001
- Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (OVERNIGHT MARCH 9-10, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: WIDE OF THE CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION 0.06 2. GV: INTERIOR OF THE RAILWAY STATION 0.12 3. GV: RIOT POLICE ENTERING THE STATION 0.19 4. MV: RIOT POLICE GETTING INSIDE TRAIN 0.31 5. GV/MV: VARIOUS OF POLICE ARRESTING PEOPLE ON TRAIN AND LEADING PEOPLE AWAY
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- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
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- Story Text: Ukrainian police have arrested scores of protesters
after a demonstration in which thousands of people took to the
streets of Kiev in the biggest march yet to demand the
resignation of President Leonid Kuchma.
Squads of riot police surrounded railway and bus
stations in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and arrested people who
had been taking part in the demonstration.
At least 100 people were arrested on Friday night (March
10) and early Saturday morning in the round-ups at railway
stations and in student dormitories.
Protesters were detained in a police bus. Nationalist
parliamentary leader Taras Chornovil was refused entry to the
bus while the detainees were on board. After leaving the bus,
two detainees alleged that they had been beaten by police on
board.
The arrests followed the mass protest on Friday in which
Ukrainian riot police clashed with demonstrators.
Police, wielding heavy truncheons, beat back around 200
people who wanted to enter a park where Ukrainian President
Leonid Kuchma was laying a wreath at the statue of a
nationalist poet.
Thousands of people later swarmed down Kiev's main street
in a rally to demand that Kuchma quit for alleged links to the
murder of an opposition journalist.
Reporters at the scene estimated the size of the protest
at between 5,000 and 10,000 people, making it the largest of
the many protests that have been held against Kuchma.
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