Send beijing+10 mailing list submissions to beijing+10@neww.org.pl To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.accent.com.pl/mailman/listinfo/beijing+10 or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to beijing+10-request@neww.org.pl You can reach the person managing the list at beijing+10-owner@neww.org.pl When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of beijing+10 digest..." Today's Topics: 1. MOSCOW POLICE ARREST GAY PRIDE LEADER (neww01@example.com) Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 17:39:26 +0200 (CEST) From: neww01@example.com Subject: [Beijing+10] MOSCOW POLICE ARREST GAY PRIDE LEADER To: beijing+10@neww.org.pl Message-ID: <2712.89.171.49.2.1148744366.squirrel@www.neww.org.pl> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 MOSCOW POLICE ARREST GAY PRIDE LEADER AND 50 OTHERS TODAY AT BANNED MARCH http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/05/moscow_police_a.html Moscow's police --1000 of whom were deployed to enforce Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's ban on a Gay Pride March scheduled for today -- have arrested Nicolas Alexeyev, principal organizer of the banned, first-ever Pride March in Russia's capitol, the Russian news agency Interfax has reported. Alexeyev was arrested while attempting to lay a wreath at Russia's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (right) in Alexander's Garden, one of Moscow_tomb_unknown the city's largest parks, which runs the entire length of the Kremlin's west wall Ten other Gay Pride participants were also arrested at that time. Yevgenia Debryanskaya, a prominent lesbian movement activist, was also later arrested by police today near Moscow's city hall, at the monument to Yuri Yury Dolgoruky (a 12th century ruler also known as Yuri_dolgoruky_monument George I of Russia, left), along with some dozen other Gay Pride marchers, after the demonstrators moved there, police told Interfax. "OMON anti-riot task force servicemen have now cordoned-off the square in front of the monument to Yuri Dolgoruky and are shoving those protesting the gay parade from the square," Interfax reported at 3:40 PM Moscow time. The OMON (insignia at right), frequently accused of abuses Omon_insignia of power and repressive violence, were created as an anti-terrorist cum riot militia for the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, and continue to exist since the fall of the Communist regime. A crowd of anti-gay protesters -- many from fascist groups like the Russian All-National Union and the Union of Orthodox Gonfalon-Carriers, and the ultra-right and xenophobic Movement Against Illegal Immigration, and including many skinheads -- which police estimated at 150, had been shouting "Sodom Won't Pass Here" at the gay marchers as they approached the Dolgoruky monument, Interfax said. In a seperate dispatch, Interfax reported that police put at 50 the number of those arrested so far in connection with today's Gay Pride events. Not only the Pride march, but gay meetings in connection with it, were banned by Mayor Luzhkov, while major Russian religious leaders called for violence against the gay demonstrators. There is as yet no word on whether any of the foreign delegates to the Pride events -- including a number of European political figures -- had been arrested. For background, read DIRELAND's earlier post on the Moscow events from earlier this morning by clicking here.
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