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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 4:07 pm Post subject: Russian Police Detain Gay Activists |
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MOSCOW (AP) -- Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
The letter, signed by some 40 European lawmakers, appealed the city's ban on a march that would have taken place Sunday to mark the 14th anniversary of Russia decriminalizing homosexuality.
Police quickly grabbed about a dozen demonstrators and forced them into a bus, including the Russian gay rights movement leader Nikolai Alexeyev. Police then hustled away others, including German parliament member Volker Beck, as opponents threw eggs and shouted: "Moscow is not Sodom!"
Marco Cappato, a European Parliament deputy from Italy, was kicked by one opponent as he spoke to journalists. Cappato began shouting: "Where are the police? Why don't you protect us?" and officers hauled him away as he struggled.
The gay rights activists appeared to number fewer than 100, while roughly that many police were present. |
What is wrong with Russia lately? |
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Kimchi Cha Cha
Joined: 15 May 2003
Location: was Suncheon, now Brisbane
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Just saw the footage on TV. Scary stuff, activists talking to the media getting king-hit with the police letting it happen and then hauling the activists away to prison. Deplorable.
Russia seems a very angry, uncertain, fractured and divided nation these days, and it doesn't look like things will change for a long while. |
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