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The rally in Chisinau, Moldova aimed to support jailed local Euroskeptic leader Evgenia Gutsul<\/strong><\/p>\n

Police have detained supporters of the political opposition in the Moldovan capital Chisinau after they attempted to hold a rally for jailed local Euroskeptic leader Evgenia Gutsul.<\/p>\n

Members of the youth wing of the opposition Victory bloc gathered at the city\u2019s railway station on Saturday morning, where they began setting up a tent camp. The unauthorized protest was aimed at calling for Gutsul\u2019s release and denounced what activists described as the \u201clawlessness\u201d<\/em> of the authorities. Victory bloc has repeatedly been barred from running in elections, over alleged procedural violations.<\/p>\n

Footage from Ruptly showed security forces dismantling tents and removing people from the area; several were arrested.<\/p>\n

Local media have reported that police have also been stopping buses carrying protesters from reaching Chisinau for a wider anti-government protest scheduled for the afternoon.
The rallies are a response to the sentencing of Gutsul, the elected leader of Gagauzia, an autonomous, predominantly Russian-speaking region in southern Moldova, to seven years in prison for alleged financial crimes.<\/p>\n

She rejected the charges as a politically motivated attempt to silence opposition ahead of September\u2019s parliamentary elections, calling the verdict \u201ca blow to democracy\u201d<\/em> and a threat to anyone challenging the country\u2019s pro-Western leadership.<\/p>\n

Gutsul has advocated for closer ties with Russia, in contrast to the pro-Western stance of Moldovan President Maia Sandu.<\/p>\n

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High-profile Western lawyers to defend jailed Euroskeptic Moldovan politician<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sandu has accelerated Moldova\u2019s EU and NATO accession efforts since she was first elected in 2020. However, her decisions have increasingly polarized Moldovans amid a backdrop of worsening economic prospects and a crackdown on dissent.<\/p>\n

Moscow has criticized Gutsul\u2019s verdict as an attack on democracy, with Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova labelling it a \u201cculmination of repression by the Chisinau regime against the entire Gagauz autonomy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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