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Moscow bans 'satanic' gay parade · 2007-01-30 11:19
Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov has said he will never allow a gay rights parade in the Russian capital.
Moscow banned a gay march in 2006, citing the threat of violence. People who ignored the ban were beaten up by counter-demonstrators and arrested, the BBC reported.
“Last year, Moscow came under unprecedented pressure to sanction the gay parade, which cannot be called anything other than satanic,” RIA Novosti agency quoted Mr Luzhkov as saying.
“We did not let the parade take place then, and we are not going to allow it in the future,” Moscow mayor said.
He thanked the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, for supporting him in banning a gay march last year.
But the parade’s organisers say they plan to hold the event in May and will appeal against the ban in the Strasbourg court.
“Trying to silence us, the Russian authorities denied us one of the fundamental human rights. The European justice will have the last say in this case,” Nikolai Alexeyev, one of the parade organisers, said in a statement.
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