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OTHER MOSCOW
PRIDE 2007 COVERAGE ON UK GAY NEWS
Moscow Pride: A Photo Essay.
Eight photographs from l Moscow Pride. 2007
Moscow Gay
Pride: Tatchell’s Assailant Not Arrested,
Say Police. Moscow police confirm that they have opened a
criminal investigation into the assault on British gay human rights
campaigner, Peter Tatchell, at last Sunday's Moscow Gay Pride event.
But official police claims that they have arrested the right-wing extremist
who punched Mr Tatchell in the face are untrue, according to the
investigating officer.
(UK Gay News, June 1)
Moscow Gay
Pride Organiser Khramov Found Guilty. One of the three
organisers of Moscow Pride has escaped a jail sentence and was fined when
found guilty this afternoon in a Moscow court which threw-out evidence,
given at a previous hearing by a number of MPs from Europe, as “frivolous”.
(UK Gay News, June 8)
Portuguese
Gay Group Slams Russia, the EU and Portugal’s PM Over Moscow Pride.
The Portuguese gay and lesbian group Panteras Rosa (Pink Panthers) today hit
out against the Russian authorities after the weekend’s violence in Moscow
during Gay Pride. (UK Gay News, May 29).
European
Union Must Impose Travel Ban on Moscow Mayor of Gay Pride Trouble – Greens.
The British Green Party has today called for a European Union travel ban on
the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, following violence in the streets of the
capital on Sunday during Gay Pride – and heavy-handed police tactics which
saw many arrests. (UK Gay News, May 28)
May 28: USA:
Beach, or Beaten in Moscow?
Commentary by Sara Whitman.
I sat at the beach today, and
wondered how many people thought Allan and I, with Zachary in tow, thought
we were heterosexual. Okay, Allan in his tiny Speedo and me in my giant one
piece Speedo and, of course, gym shorts, were not exactly looking incredibly
straight but the image was enough to bother me. I had read this
morning that over thirty gay activists had been arrested in Moscow.
May 28: UK/Russia:
London Mayor
Appeals to Moscow For End of Gay Pride Ban.
Following yesterday’ violence
against lesbian and gay rights demonstrators in Moscow – and the arrest of
several of the demonstrators – the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has this
morning written to his Moscow counterpart Mayor Luzhkov urging that no
charges be brought against those who were demonstrating for lesbian
and gay rights.
May 28:
Russia:
Gay Pride
Organisers Alekseev and Two Others Await Court – 15 Days In Prison Expected.
Nikolai Alekseev and two colleagues from Moscow Gay Pride are spending
tonight in police custody at they await a court appearance later this
morning.
May 27:
Russia:
Peter
Tatchell Speaks About His Experience of Gay Pride, the Assault and His
Arrest. Arrests and violent attacks marred today’s
attempted Moscow Gay Pride march. Fifteen to 20 marchers were
arrested. The organiser of Moscow Pride, Nikolai Alekseev, is
being detained overnight at Moscow’s Tverskoi district police
station, together with two prominent members of Russia’s Radical and
Free Radical parties, Nikolai Khramov and Sergei Konstantinov.
British gay human rights
campaigner Peter Tatchell was one of several Gay Pride marchers who
were beaten today by gangs of neo-Nazis, nationalist extremists and
Russian Orthodox fundamentalists.
May 27:
Russia:
Arrested Gay Pride Activist Asks World for Help.
From inside the Tverskoye police station, where he is being detained,
Nikolai Alekseev – one of the Moscow Gay Pride organisers and its
spokesperson – has issued a statement asking for international
support and for the immediate release of all the gays activists
currently being held.
May 27:
Russia:
Moscow Gay Pride:
Dispatches from the Front.
There was trouble in Moscow today when participants at Gay Pride,, led by a
number of European politicians, tried to deliver a letter of protest to
Mayor Yuri Luzhkov at City Hall. Violence flared as they faced groups
of neo-Facist thugs, religious groups, aggressive police and the OMON.
This is a "record" of the dispatches received by UK Gay News from many
sources.
May 27:
Russia:
Tatchell at Moscow Gay Pride: We
Are In This Fight Together. Greetings! I bring you a
message of comradeship and solidarity from the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and intersex [LGBTI] human rights organizations OutRage! in
London. Your struggle is our struggle. This is the full text of
Peter Tatchell's keynote speech to the Moscow Gay Pride Conference yesterday
May 27:
Russia:
Moscow Gay Pride 2006: Where Were the Human Rights
Campaigners?
The
Same Question Can be Asked Today.
The following commentary by GayRussia.ru was
written a year ago. Has the situation changed? The stark answer is: “Not
really”. Ludmila Alekseeva
of the Moscow Helsinki Group and Lev Ponomarev of the Movement for Human
Rights have both declined to come, just as last year.
May 26:
Russia:
Moscow Gay
Pride Blog.
May 26:
Russia:
Moscow City Hall Quiet as 120 Journalists Check In For
Moscow Gay Pride. With Gay Pride about to start, Moscow is
surprisingly quiet. Not a single official statement has been released by
Mayor of Moscow, unlike at the same time last year.
May 25:
Russia:
Tatchell: The Right To Hold Moscow Pride Is Not Just an
Issue of Gay, Lesbian Rights.
International solidarity can help give a psychological
and practical boost to local LGBT activists, Peter Tatchell said shortly
after arriving in Moscow for the city’s second Gay Pride. |
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■ Peter Tatchell supporting
Ahwazi Arabs in a demonstration in April.
photo courtesy
British Ahwazi Friendship Society |
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LONDON, May 28, 2007 – Ahwazi
Arab activists last night condemned the treatment of gay rights activist
Peter Tatchell and other demonstrators in Moscow yesterday.
Mr. Tatchell, the Ahwazi Human
Rights Organisation (AHRO) pointed out, has “worked tirelessly” for minority
groups such as the Ahwazi Arabs, forging solidarity with people facing
discrimination on the basis of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender and
sexuality.
“It’s a sad day for peace and
democracy in general and democracy in Russia in particular when well-known
human rights advocates and defenders such as Peter Tatchell and Marco
Cappato are arrested and beaten in broad daylight in full view of Russian
police in Mosco” said . Dr Karim Abdian, director of AHRO.
“Peter Tatchell, a British icon in
human rights, and Mr Cappato, an MP in European Parliament and a leader of
the Italian Radical Party, are friends and supporters of the Ahwazi Arab
ethnic minority in Iran.
“We condemn the arrests and beating
of Peter Tatchell and [the] delegates. We also hold the Russian government
responsible for their well-being,”
British Ahwazi Friendship Society
activists have also joined in the condemnation of the beatings and arrests.
Spokesperson Ali Bani Torfi said:
“We call for solidarity with Peter and condemn his arrest. He was punched
in the head in full view of police. The acts of Russian police appeared to
support the ultra-nationalists and Orthodox Church hardliners.
“The Iranian regime violates the
freedom of speech of Ahwazi Arabs by preventing them from holding
demonstrations,” he pointed out. “The Russian government is doing the same
to activists in Moscow.
“Peter is a good friend of the
oppressed and downtrodden peoples like the Ahwazi Arabs in Iran. He fought
to save the lives of many Ahwazi Arab activists who were arrested by the
Iranian regime. All these nations must now stand with Peter and call the UK
and EU governments to intervene and pressure Russia to release [those still
detained] without delay.”
Yasser Assadi added: “We Ahwazis
give our support to the human rights activist Peter Tatchell who is not only
acting for gay rights but also other human rights issues such as minority
rights. He has helped the oppressed Ahwazi people raise their voice at an
international level.
“We believe that he should be freed
and should not be treated inhumanely,” Yasser Assadi concluded.
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