MOSCOW—A Moscow court freed an opposition protester from custody on Sept. 18, as school teachers and Orthodox priests told authorities to rein in a crackdown following the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in the capital for years.
The court released Aidar Gubaydulin, who faced years in jail for assaulting a police officer at a protest in August, on bail. His supporters claim that all he had done was throw a plastic bottle at a police officer and that he had missed his target.
