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02 April 2007, 12:46Moscow City Court upholds ban on gay pride parade
Moscow, April 2, Interfax - Moscow City Court chairperson Olga Yegorova has rejected the appeal filed by organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade challenging the Tverskoy district court's ruling that banned the event.
"We have tapped all opportunities to have the Moscow City Court's illegal ban on the gay march in May 2006 reversed, and will appeal to the Supreme Court," organizer Nikolay Alexeyev said.
The Supreme Court's ruling "is expected to be more objective," he said.
An organizing committee for a second gay pride parade, set for May 27, the day marking the 14th anniversary of the day criminal prosecution of homosexuals was abolished in Russia, was set up in Moscow on March 19. An application for permission to hold a gay pride parade will be submitted to the Moscow government two weeks before the event. The organizers claimed that they would turn out for the march whether or not city authorities give their consent.
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. |
