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Jun 27, 2007
Quickie Link: Gay Rights Activists Detained by Moscow Police
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By vanrozenheim
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(Moscow, Russia) - Police on Wednesday blocked gay rights activists from holding a demonstration in the capital and detained two of them despite the protest being authorized by city authorities. The approximately two dozen activists aimed to hold the protest outside the European Union's representative office in Moscow to demand that the EU impose a visa ban on Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has banned gay rights parades and called homosexuality "satanic." Although the planned demonstration had been sanctioned, police said they decided to block it because it would interfere with construction taking place nearby.
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