Police in Moscow arrested Yekaterinburg resident Dmitry Bakhtin on Monday after he staged a one-man protest on Red Square in an effort to convince the Russian authorities to provide lifesaving medication to his three-year-old son, according to the news outlet Sota. A journalist from Sota who was covering the protest was arrested as well.
Bakhtin has been arrested multiple times in the past for protesting, including on Red Square. Bakhtin’s son, Misha, suffers from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and the medication he requires, risdiplam, is one of the most expensive medications in the world. Bakhtin has previously said that a year’s worth of the medicine costs 14 million rubles (about $140,000).
If you expect people to be rational thinking individuals, I have bad news for you
I just mean that it is not about the laws which rightfully punish interference with traffic in dangerous ways. That is, at best, another excuse. It also doesn’t really apply here since none of the news about the protestors mention any sort of dangerous traffic situation (apart from people deliberately trying to run them over). No last minute braking, no swerving,…