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Tens of thousands protest Charlie Hebdo in Russia's Caucasus
GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Tens of thousands marched through the Chechen capital on Monday to protest the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which again put a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.
Demonstrators in Grozny, capital of the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia, released balloons and carried posters that read "Hands off our beloved prophet" and "Europe has only united us."
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his official Instagram account Friday that those who defended the weekly Charlie Hebdo were his "personal enemies" and vowed that at least 1 million people would join the government-sponsored protest in Grozny.
On Monday, Kadyrov spoke from a stage wearing a vest with "We Love Mohammed, we don't love Charlie" written on it.
A police spokesman told Interfax news agency that 800,000 people attended the protest Monday, although those numbers were impossible to verify.
Russia, which has a large and restive Muslim population and waged two devastating wars against Chechen separatists in the 1990s, offered its condolences to France after the Paris terror attacks earlier this month. It has warned Russian publications, however, against reprinting any Charlie Hebdo cartoons that featured the Prophet Mohammed.
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-gather-protest-caricatures-russias-caucasus-083012411.html
Tens of thousands protest Charlie Hebdo in Russia's Caucasus
GROZNY, Russia (AP) — Tens of thousands marched through the Chechen capital on Monday to protest the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which again put a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on its cover.
Demonstrators in Grozny, capital of the predominantly Muslim region in southern Russia, released balloons and carried posters that read "Hands off our beloved prophet" and "Europe has only united us."
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his official Instagram account Friday that those who defended the weekly Charlie Hebdo were his "personal enemies" and vowed that at least 1 million people would join the government-sponsored protest in Grozny.
On Monday, Kadyrov spoke from a stage wearing a vest with "We Love Mohammed, we don't love Charlie" written on it.
A police spokesman told Interfax news agency that 800,000 people attended the protest Monday, although those numbers were impossible to verify.
Russia, which has a large and restive Muslim population and waged two devastating wars against Chechen separatists in the 1990s, offered its condolences to France after the Paris terror attacks earlier this month. It has warned Russian publications, however, against reprinting any Charlie Hebdo cartoons that featured the Prophet Mohammed.
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-gather-protest-caricatures-russias-caucasus-083012411.html
