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Russian police detained several protesters chanting "Freedom" on Monday outside a Moscow courthouse where a judge was expected to sentence eight defendants convicted of attacking police at an anti-government demonstration in 2012. Hundreds of people came to support the defendants in the "Bolotnaya" case, who Kremlin critics see as victims of a clampdown on dissent in President Vladimir Putin's third term. The judge on Friday found the defendants guilty of rioting and attacking police at a protest on May 6, 2012, the day before Putin, in power since 2000, returned to the presidency after a stint as prime minister. Prosecutors have asked for sentences of five to six years for the defendants, seven men and a woman, most of them in their 20s.
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