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A Moscow court has refused another prosecutor’s request to deprive a couple of their parental rights and take their children from them for bringing them to a protest rally.

The Lefortovo district court denied the district prosecutor’s motion late on September 2, rejecting claims that Dmitry Prokazov and his wife, Olga Prokazova, should be denied their parental rights because they put their 20-month-old son in danger and violated their parental duties.

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