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"Kevin O'Flynn, a journalist working for The Guardian in Moscow, live tweeted his own arrest on Monday while covering the ongoing protests sparked by the inauguration of Vladimir Putin as president of Russia.\nO'Flynn arrived at the gates of Moscow's Presidential Administration Building at approximately 7:00 p.m. local time Monday evening. He found an increased police presence, despite few protesters on the scene.\n\nFew people. Gate still open topresidential administration. A sprinkling of police vans.campl.us/jkqK\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\nAbout a half an hour later, O'Flynn checked and cleared his press credentials with the authorities. A minute after that, he was arrested \u2014 and he got to tweeting immediately.\n\nOoh arrested, one minute after documents checked and said ok.\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\nSome of his followers quickly took notice, asking him questions or sending words of goodwill.\n\n@oflynnkevin \u0423\u0434\u0430\u0447\u0438.Hope everything turns out ok.\n\u2014 Janine Balekdjian (@Galadriel391) May 7, 2012\n\n\n@oflynnkevin what have you been arrested for?\n\u2014 km (@agitpro) May 7, 2012\n\nO'Flynn wasn't immediately able to answer, but he was able to fire off a cameraphone photo from inside a Russian police van.\n\nInside the police van. Next prisoner enters says 'Hello political prisoners' campl.us/jktC\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\n\nHowever, O'Flynn was released from custody seven minutes later.\n\nI'm out. Shortest detention in history. They even apologized.\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\nLater, he gave more details about his arrest, which was carried out by police in riot gear.\n\nWas lifted up and taken by two very short riot police officers. Shouted \"I love you\" a number of times but they oddly ignored me.\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\n\nAfter being released, I was welcomed back to free land by a pretty young girl who gave me this.campl.us/jkvq\n\u2014 Kevin O'Flynn(@oflynnkevin) May 7, 2012\n\nPutin was elected to the Russian presidency in March after previously serving two four-year terms as president, then four as prime minister beside the now-former President Dimitri Medvedev. Many observers believed Putin to be using the prime minister role as a means to secure re-election as president this year. He was barred by Russian law from seeking three consecutive terms.\nHundreds of Russian citizens have been arrested during anti-Putin protests in Moscow, some of which featured violent encounters between Putin's opposition and police.\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, RapidEye\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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