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Jun 03, 2007
Quickie Link: Latvians Have Better Rights of Assembly After Last Years Pride
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By vanrozenheim
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(Riga, Latvia) - The effect of last year’s abandoned Riga Gay Pride, when participants attending private indoor events had animal excrement thrown over them from No Pride protestors, has had a positive effect for all of Latvian society, Anhelita Kamenska of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights said this afternoon. She said that the negative world-wide publicity for Latvia, combined with a court case, had resulted in all demonstrations now being permitted. “Latvian people now have the right of assembly - and the police will now protect demonstrations,” Ms. Kamenska said. She said that the decision by a local court to back the ban on last year’s Pride Parade was overturned on appeal by the regional court.
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