Arrests at Banned Moscow Gay Rally

World | May 27, 2006, Saturday // 00:00

More than 70 people have been arrested in Moscow after activists tried to hold the city's first gay rights rally, despite a ban on the event. About 50 gay rights supporters were held, as well as 20 people from religious and nationalist groups opposed to the march. On Friday, a court upheld a ban on the march imposed by the city authorities who argued it could trigger violence. Saturday marks 13 years since Russia's decriminalisation of homosexuality. A number of foreign activists are in Moscow for a forum on gay rights.

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