ecord least nice and maxine martin soft have been accused of kicking a police officer at a protest last summer both men insist they are innocent but the court rejects their appeal and sentences them to several years in a prison camp. the judgment it's their families hard is there to support them her son was also put in prison after the moscow protests but i was lucky after just a month in pretrial custody most charges against him were dropped and he was released but not sense of injustice hasn't gone away. it's strange today it should be the judge the state prosecutor the government who feel guilty but instead we're the ones who feel guilty. the boys who are released the parents because our children are free. there have been several mother's marches in moscow already including this one in february of last year now the protests have grown into a movement down with the police state they chant here i want to say that when thousands took to the streets that authorized demonstrations in moscow last summer police crackdown heavily on the protests. surveys conducted by an independent pollster