Sunday, May 27, 2007

Russian Police Arrest Gay Rights Activists, European Lawmakers at Protest

(Bloomberg) -- Russian Police detained gay rights
activists and three European lawmakers as they demonstrated
outside the Moscow mayor's office today and Ultra-nationalists
also attacked the demonstrators.

Russian gay rights advocate Nikolai Alexeyev, who
organized today's event, and German parliament member Volker
Beck were pelted with eggs and then bundled into a police van
after attempting to deliver a letter to Moscow Mayor Yuri
Luzhkov requesting permission to hold a march in support of
gay rights in the city.


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