Скачать или смотреть Opposition figure released from prison after five day sentence

(29 Nov 2007)
1. Wide police car draws up
2. Mid Garry Kasparov, opposition leader, kissing and talking to supporters
3. Cutaway of cameraman
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Garry Kasparov, Russian opposition leader:
"I have to admit that staying five days in a prison cell was probably the least unpleasant experience of this adventure because they were trying to be polite, they were very attentive but following the instructions of their bosses, they cut all my contacts with the outside world."
5. Cutaway of cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Garry Kasparov, Russian opposition leader:
"It was a kangaroo court and it's not only about Garry Kasparov it's about all our activists. Now I hope people in the world can see what is happening with opposition activists in Russia when the regime pays no attention, no attention whatsoever to the legal procedures."
7. Mid of Kasparov talking to press
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Garry Kasparov, Russian opposition leader:
"The law is no longer functioning in Russia so that's why the election campaign I'm sure is fixed already. I was not able to follow the latest polls, anything I could hear was on Radio Russia, that's the only radio you could hear in the prison cell. The advertising of registered political parties. But I don't think that it makes any difference. We have to see how far this regime is ready to go further in violating the constitution."
9. Wide tilt-up from media to Kasparov's apartment block
STORYLINE:
Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, one of President Vladimir Putin's most celebrated foes, was released from a Moscow jail on Thursday after serving his five-day sentence for leading a protest march.
The authorities' goal in jailing him "was to send a message," Kasparov said after stepping out of the police
car that delivered him to his Moscow home.
Kasparov said he would continue his efforts to build opposition to Putin and predicted he would be arrested again on more serious charges.
The 44-year-old said he was treated well in the police jail and received food parcels.
"I have to admit that staying five days in a prison cell was probably the least unpleasant experience of this adventure because they were trying to be polite," he said. "They were very attentive to me, but following directions from above they cut all my contacts with the outside world."
Riot police arrested Kasparov on Saturday after a demonstration that drew thousands of opposition protesters and ended in clashes and dozens of arrests.
In a trial that evening, Kasparov was convicted of leading an illegal march that followed the rally, chanting anti-Putin slogans and resisting arrest.
The protesters charged that authorities were preventing parties challenging the Kremlin-backed United Russia party from freely contesting Sunday's parliamentary election.
Kasparov's Other Russia coalition, which includes radicals, democrats and Soviet-era dissidents, has drawn wide media coverage but generated little public support. Its ranks expanded in the run-up to the parliamentary vote, though, as mainstream political parties began to complain they faced harassment in the campaign.
The crackdown on Russia's opposition comes at a time of growing concern in the West over the state of democracy in Russia, with critics saying freedoms have been curtailed during Putin's eight years in office. Putin accuses the West of meddling in Russian politics.

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