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Moscow: Police was hard on LGBT action on Arbat Street
6 Oct. 2013
Rayda Lin, Nix Nemeni, Ildar Dadin and Roman Petriscev were detained by the police during their march on Arbat street. It's likely that they will be charged with art. 19.3 of the Administrative Code. A team of paramedics was called to Arbat police station to give medical help to Ildar Dadin, reports OVDinfo - a site that monitors state's violence.
"Putin began with actions against gays", "Hitler began with actions against gays" - LGBT action was held demonstratively at the same time when President Putin was receiving the Olympics' Torch at the Red Square and by the opinion of LGBT activists had to show the same ideology roots of the two politics and their regimes...
The police was so tough that day that several witnesses of the action were protesting aloud. Passersby started discussion with gay activists and did not agreed with their position, nevertheless, eyewitnesses were trying to calm down the policemen. The situation deteriorated due to action of a passerby man who voluntarily "helped" the police and used force and violence against LGBT protesters.
In the centre of a poster that was held by gay activists was a collective portrait of Hitler, Putin, deputies Mizulina and Zhuravlev. The latter is a deputy - member of United Russia faction in Gosduma - who initiated a procedure to introduce amendments to the Family Code to deprive parents that "commit non-traditional sexual intercourse" of their parental rights. 15 days ago "Zhuravlev's law" was sent by Mizulina's Gosduma committee for discussion by regional parliaments and consideration of Putin's and Medvedev's administrations. A preliminary voting time in Gosduma for that draft-law is February 2014.
Six gay activists were participating in Arbat action. Two of them managed to leave, four were arrested. Grani.ru project uploaded the LGBT action's video to the Internet.
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
"Putin began with actions against gays", "Hitler began with actions against gays" - LGBT action was held demonstratively at the same time when President Putin was receiving the Olympics' Torch at the Red Square and by the opinion of LGBT activists had to show the same ideology roots of the two politics and their regimes...
The police was so tough that day that several witnesses of the action were protesting aloud. Passersby started discussion with gay activists and did not agreed with their position, nevertheless, eyewitnesses were trying to calm down the policemen. The situation deteriorated due to action of a passerby man who voluntarily "helped" the police and used force and violence against LGBT protesters.
In the centre of a poster that was held by gay activists was a collective portrait of Hitler, Putin, deputies Mizulina and Zhuravlev. The latter is a deputy - member of United Russia faction in Gosduma - who initiated a procedure to introduce amendments to the Family Code to deprive parents that "commit non-traditional sexual intercourse" of their parental rights. 15 days ago "Zhuravlev's law" was sent by Mizulina's Gosduma committee for discussion by regional parliaments and consideration of Putin's and Medvedev's administrations. A preliminary voting time in Gosduma for that draft-law is February 2014.
English translation presented by Yerdna Bananes
Gay.Ru
