07-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com

Russian couple face losing custody of child after protest

Moscow's ombudsman for children's rights and members of a presidential council have expressed outrage over Russian prosecutors trying to take a 1-year-old boy from his parents because they allegedly brought him to an unauthorized protest.The ombudsman, Yevgeny Bunimovich, denounced the custody removal request prosecutors filed Tuesday as "political blackmail involving children" and said he wrote Moscow's chief prosecutor to urge dropping a criminal case against the parents.Prosecutors alleged in
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