1963_Moscow_protest
1963 Moscow protest
Protests by African students on Red Square
On 18 December 1963, a number of students from Ghana and other African countries organized a protest on Moscow's Red Square (Russian SFSR, USSR) in response to the alleged murder of the medical student Edmund Assare-Addo. The number of participants was reported at 500–700,[1][2][3] but the Ghanaian physician Edward Na, who participated in the events, claimed there were at most 150 protesters.[4] The ambassador of Ghana in the Soviet Union, John Banks Elliott, requested militsiya protection of the Ghanaian embassy.[2]
This was the first recorded political protest on the Red Square since the late 1920s.[3]