Gay parade, banned in Moscow
For the fifth consecutive year that the gay parade was scheduled to take place in the Russian capital,it has been banned, reports AFP.
Organizers want to appeal the decision in court and are ready to reach the European Court of Human Rights to obtain prevail.
Parade organizers have made several requests to the mayor. All have been rejected and no further alternative was offered .
“As in previous years, the mayor relied on public issues,” he told AFP one of the organizers.
Since 2006,when the first “gay parade” took place in Moscow, organizers have never received permission to go out in the streets of Moscow. But each time, homosexuals did not subject to the ban and came to the parade. All attempts ended in violence and arrests.
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