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06/26/2008

EP, Write question, Detention-without-charge in the UK

The House of Commons has approved a counter-terrorism bill proposed by the government which includes a controversial new measure to extend the current detention-without-charge limit for terror suspects from 28 days to 42 days. The Terrorism Act of 20
05/29/2007

Riot Police Detain Gay Rights Activists

MOSCOW Ч OMON riot police detained gay rights activists, including three European lawmakers, on Sunday as they tried to deliver a letter to City Hall appealing a banned gay march.

A crowd of gay rights opponents, meanwhile, shoute
05/29/2007

From Russia with hate: senior diplomat becomes latest Briton to fall foul of thugs: Siberia assault follows harassment of ambassador Livingstone plea to mayor of Moscow on gay parades

A senior British diplomat has been beaten by two unidentified assailants while on an official trip in provincial Russia. Nigel Gould-Davies, first secretary at the British embassy in Moscow, was attacked at 1am on Saturday as he walked across the the
05/29/2007

Peter Tatchell:

On Sunday Peter Tatchell was assaulted and then arrested at a gay-rights protest in Moscow. Here he tells Luke Harding exactly what happened.

I was invited to Moscow by the organisers of Gay Pride. The plan was to mark the 14th annivers
05/29/2007

Violence mars an effort to appeal Moscow

MOSCOW - Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor Sunday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists. <
05/29/2007

Detention of Euro MPs at Moscow Gay Parade angers Italian, French FMs.

ROME/PARIS, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - Italy's foreign minister has expressed anger at the detention of two members of the European parliament during Sunday's unsanctioned Gay Pride Parade in central Moscow, while a spokesman for France's Foreign Ministr
05/27/2007

CAPPATO MEP ARRESTED IN MOSCOW

Italian Radical Party MEP Marco Cappato has been arrested in Moscow today along with other activists of the Transnational Radical Party

This morning at 10.15 CET in Moscow, in front of the seat of the Mayor of Moscow in Tverskaja Street M
05/27/2007

Moscow Gay Pride: Cappato and other Members of the Radical Party attacked by a mob and arrested by the police while trying to deliver a letter to the Mayor

Sunday 27 May, at 10:15 am in Moscow, in Tverskaja street, in front of the offices of the Mayor of the Russian Capital, several representatives of the NonViolent Radical Party have been attacked by a group of provocators, who were chanting slogans at
05/27/2007

42 MEPs call on Moscow's mayor to guarantee safety of gay-pride march this weekend

Strasbourg, 24 May 2007

42 MEPs from 15 countries and 5 different political groups have signed an open letter prepared by Marco Cappato (Radical Party, Italy) and Sophie In't Veld (D66, Netherlands) which has been addressed to Yuri LUZH
05/23/2007

40 MEPs call on Moscow's mayor to guarantee safety of gay-pride march this weekend

40 MEPs from 15 countries and 5 different political groups have signed an open letter prepared by Marco Cappato (Radical Party, Italy) and Sophie In't Veld (D66, Netherlands) which has been addressed to Yuri LUZHKOV, the Mayor of Moscow ahead of this
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