Russia is seriously concerned over recent “aggressive” arrests of demonstrators in Chicago and Montreal and hopes that the U.S. and Canadian authorities will react to public rallies with restraint, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ombudsman for human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, said on Monday.
Mass arrests of supporters of the Occupy movement in Chicago and students protesting against the hike in university tuition fees in Montreal took place over the past few days.
“Despite the fact that citizens’ protests were peaceful in most of the cases, especially in the beginning, U.S. and Canadian police officers have used disproportionate force [against protesters],” Dolgov said.
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