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Moscow bans gay pride parade · 2007-04-02 18:38
Moscow City Court has rejected the appeal filed by organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade challenging the Tverskoy district court's ruling that banned the event, Mosnews web site reported.
One of the organizers Nikolay Alexeyev says they plan to appeal to the Supreme Court, as he consider it “more objective.”
The second gay pride parade is set for May 27 to mark the 14th anniversary of the day, when criminal prosecution of homosexuals was abolished in Russia.
An application for permission to hold a gay pride parade will be submitted to the Moscow government two weeks before the event.
On May 26, 2006, Moscow Tverskoy court upheld the decision of the authorities to ban the gay pride parade, set for the next day.
On September 19 the Moscow City Court rejected the organizers' appeal and upheld the earlier ruling and on December 25 the Moscow City Court rejected a second appeal filed by the organizers.
On January 29, the organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade submitted a complaint against the Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights, demanding that the ban be qualified as going against the European Convention on Human Rights and seeking compensation of 20,000 euro.
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