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09 June 2007, 16:11Moscow gay parade organizers left the courtroom in protest
Moscow, June 9, Interfax - The organizers of a failed gay parade in Moscow left the courtroom in protest on Saturday as the administrative punishment for one of the parade organizers, Nikolay Alexeyev, was being considered.
"It was some sort of farce in the courtroom. The judge rejected all our requests that photo and video documents showing that we did not violate public order be attached to the case, and said there was enough other evidence in the case," Alexeyev said to Interfax.
Two police officers testified in court on the circumstances of Alexeyev's detention, Alexeyev said. He, however, claimed that "none of them in fact was involved in my detention," which, he said, can be proven with photographic evidence.
Also on Friday another organizer of the event, Nikolay Khramov, the leader of the Russian Radical organization, was found guilty and fined 1,000 rubles.
The gay parade organizers were accused of resisting the police. |
