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Amnesty International has urged Russia to immediately free a lawyer who was detained during a recent rally against pension reform and later jailed on “politically motivated” charges.

Mikhail Benyash was among dozens of people “arbitrarily” detained during a peaceful protest in the southwestern city of Krasnodar on Sept. 9, the London-based human rights watchdog said on Sept. 12.