モスクワ・プライド：反対者は、LGBT活動家を攻撃するために集まった

同性愛者１２０人、無許可デモで拘束　モスクワ
2006年05月28日19時43分 朝日

　モスクワ中心部で２７日、ロシアの同性愛者のグループ約２００人が無許可のままクレムリン近くの公園までデモ行進をしようとして警察に拘束された。インタファクス通信によると、デモ阻止に集まった若者らを合わせ、拘束者は１２０人に上った。


モスクワで同性愛者デモ、実力行使で解散させられる
2006.05.28
Web posted at: 19:38 JST
- CNN/AP

モスクワ──ロシアの首都モスクワで２７日、同性愛者の権利擁護を求めるデモが当局の規制を無視して強行されたが、警官隊や右派勢力による実力行使で解散に追い込まれた。

主催者はデモ数時間前の記者会見で、平和的に行動する意向を表明。主催者はデモ参加者らに対し、クレムリンの壁の外に設けられた「無名戦士の墓」に献花し、デモ開催申請を却下したモスクワ市庁舎の向かいにある広場に集まるよう呼びかけた。

しかし警官隊が墓への入口を封鎖したうえ、宗教関係者や右派過激派ら１００人と小競り合いになった。現場に出動した警官隊は、デモ参加者と反対派を合わせて１２０人近くを拘束した。

２７日はロシア当局が同性愛を非犯罪化してから１３年目にあたる。今週は海外から大勢の活動家がモスクワに集結し、同性愛者の権利に関する関連フォーラムを開催した。こうした行事はロシアでは前例がない。

モスクワ当局は騒乱発生の可能性を理由にデモ開催を不許可としたが、同性愛者の権利という概念を受け入れない姿勢も示していた。


Moscou : Bertrand Delanoë condamne les violences contre la Gay Pride
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Le maire de Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, a condamné "avec la plus extrême fermeté les incidents inacceptables qui ont émaillé la gay pride" interdite samedi à Moscou.

"Je tiens à condamner avec la plus extrême fermeté les incidents inacceptables qui ont émaillé la gay pride organisée ce jour à Moscou", a déclaré Bertrand Delanoë dans un communiqué.

Plus d'une centaine de personnes ont été interpellées par la police et des dizaines de militants de la cause homosexuelle violemment agressés par des skinheads samedi au cri de "Moscou n'est pas Sodome!" le jour où devait se tenir la Gay Pride interdite par la mairie.

"Il s'agit d'une atteinte grave au respect des droits de l'Homme et de chaque identité, contraire aux principes élémentaires d'une nation démocratique", a ajouté le maire de Paris.

Bertrand Delanoë a précisé qu'il avait veillé à exprimer son point de vue au maire de Moscou.

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Russie: heurts et arrestations pour une Gay Pride interdite à Moscou
[28 May 2006]
MOSCOU (AFP)

Plus d'une centaine de personnes ont été interpellées samedi par la police et des dizaines de militants de la cause homosexuelle agressés par des skinheads aux cris de "Moscou n'est pas Sodome!" le jour où devait se tenir une Gay Pride interdite par la mairie.

Le leader de l'organisation de défense des droits des homosexuels en Russie GayRussia, Nikolaï Alekseïev, a été interpellé avec plusieurs militants alors qu'il tentait d'approcher le Tombeau du soldat inconnu, au pied des murailles du Kremlin, pour y déposer des fleurs, a constaté une journaliste de l'AFP.

Ce geste était censé montrer un parallèle entre la lutte historique contre l'Allemagne nazie et la lutte pour les droits des homosexuels, alors que la mairie de Moscou avait interdit la tenue de la Gay Pride que la communauté homosexuelle russe voulait célébrer ce samedi.

Des militants américains, français, néerlandais et allemands étaient venus à Moscou pour soutenir les homosexuels russes et protester contre l'interdiction de la parade.

Volker Beck, un député allemand du Bundestag, a été frappé et avait le visage en sang.

Pierre Serne, un Vert français, et Merlin Holland, personnalité britannique qui est le petit-fils de l'écrivain Oscar Wilde, ont également été agressés. Philippe Lasnier, chargé de mission au cabinet du maire de Paris Bertrand Delanoë, a été brièvement interpellé par la police.

M. Delanoë a condamné "avec la plus extrême fermeté" les incidents survenus à Moscou, qu'il a jugés "inacceptables", dans un communiqué adressé à l'AFP à Paris.

Selon le maire socialiste, "il s'agit d'une atteinte grave au respect des droits de l'Homme et de chaque identité, contraire aux principes élémentaires d'une nation démocratique".

Clémentine Autain, adjointe au maire de Paris et militante féministe, s'est étonnée du peu d'empressement des forces de l'ordre à protéger les manifestants des attaques.

"Au moment où la Russie prend la présidence du Conseil de l'Europe, nous sommes inquiets, parce que les autorités russes ne font pas preuve de la volonté de respecter les droits de l'Homme, notamment les droits des minorités et la liberté d'expression", a-t-elle déclaré.

"L'entrée dans le parc (qui mène vers le tombeau du soldat inconnu) était fermée et il y avait une foule de gens à l'extérieur que l'on pourrait décrire comme des néo-fascistes", a raconté Robert Wintemute, un professeur du King's College de Londres, également présent.

"Il y a eu une rixe, les néo-fascistes se sont déchaînés. Ils ont frappé Merlin Holland à coups de pied. Je n'ai jamais vu ça," a ajouté M. Wintemute.

Les policiers moscovites assistés de plusieurs centaines d'hommes des troupes anti-émeutes se sont efforcés d'isoler les militants de la cause homosexuelle de leurs opposants, qui allaient de groupes de skinheads à des Cosaques en passant par des groupes extrémistes orthodoxes mêlant prêtres et vieilles femmes lançant des oeufs vers les manifestants.

Les attaques de bandes de skinheads envers les militants se sont produites aussi devant la mairie, où les militants avaient prévu de déposer une lettre de protestation contre l'interdiction de la parade.

Selon la police, plus d'une centaine de personnes ont été interpellées.

Le maire de Moscou Iouri Loujkov avait interdit la tenue de la parade homosexuelle, estimant qu'une telle manifestation était moralement "inadmissible". Cette décision a été confortée par un tribunal local.



Deustche Welle
Europe | 28.05.2006
German Politician Beaten By Russian Neo-Nazis

Beck (center) said the police did nothing to protect the gay rights activists

More than 70 people, including a German parliamentarian, were arrested in Moscow after Russian police, militant Orthodox Christians and right-wing extremists broke up a gay rights rally.

The parade to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia took place on Saturday despite being prohibited by authorities. Several people were injured during the clashes, among them German parliamentarian Volker Beck.

Volker Beck of Germany's Green party was one of the foreign activists who traveled to Moscow in support of the city's first-ever gay rights rally. And he was among those who gathered in the city center on Saturday even though authorities had banned the march.

The activists were soon surrounded by dozens of religious and nationalist extremists, who chanted anti-gay slogans and tried to break up the gathering. Police units then moved on the crowd. During the clashes that followed Volker Beck was punched in the face and slightly injured.

"I was attacked by a neo-Nazi. First with a stone then with a fist," he said. "This incident clearly shows that gays are not safe in this country. Police failed to protect us, they even prevented us from escaping, so we were exposed to the dangerous situation without any protection."

Intolerance from mayor

Following the turmoil, the German politician was detained and only released after authorities recognized his parliamentary credentials. Police also arrested gay rights activist Nikolai Alekseyev, the driving force behind the march, along with other demonstrators who attempted to lay flowers on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin walls. Several protesters who tried to break up the gay rally were also being held.

Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzkhov

City authorities had initially prohibited the first ever gay rights parade in Moscow, and that decision was upheld by a district court on Friday. Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzkhov had warned that the event would "provoke outrage in society" because homosexuality was "not natural." He also claimed that 99 percent of the people in Moscow were supportive of the ban.

Homosexuality was considered a crime in Russia until 1993 and a mental illness until 1999. Even today same-sex couples almost never make a public display of their affection. According to activists, discrimination is still a major problem in Russian society, with gays and lesbians facing widespread public intolerance.

Anja von Cysewski (ncy)


Moscow gay rights march meets with violence, police
Protesters show up to attack activists at banned event
- Michael Mainville, San Francisco Chronicle Foreign Service
Sunday, May 28, 2006

Moscow -- Defying an official ban and threats of violence, gay and lesbian activists attempted to hold Russia's first gay pride march in Moscow on Saturday, but were thwarted by police and neo-fascist protesters shouting "Moscow is not Sodom!"

Police arrested about 120 people, and several gay activists were injured in attacks by religious and xenophobic extremists.

The key organizer of the event, 28-year-old Nikolai Alexeyev, was pulled away by police only moments after the short-lived march began. "This is a great victory, an absolute victory -- look at what's happening," Alexeyev shouted as two police officers dragged him onto a waiting bus.

City authorities had banned the march, which they called an "outrage to society," while religious leaders from all of Russia's major faiths condemned it. It provoked a debate within the gay community over whether the demonstration risked inflaming already widespread homophobia in Russia.

But supporters had insisted it was necessary.

"We can't keep living in the shadows," Alexeyev said in an interview before the rally began. "We deserve the same rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly as anyone else."

Organizers had urged gay-rights supporters to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, just outside the Kremlin wall, before marching to a square opposite Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's office. But when they arrived, they found that authorities had closed the entrance to the park where the tomb is located, and hundreds of riot police blocked their path.

More than 100 anti-gay protesters -- including skinheads, Russian nationalists and Orthodox Christian fundamentalists -- had gathered. Women wearing head scarves chanted hymns and held up religious icons, while men in traditional cossack tunics and sheepskin hats shouted at participants.

As police pushed the crowd away from the Kremlin, gangs of skinheads attacked a number of gay activists, kicking and beating them. "We're here to defend the dignity of Russia, to protect our country from perverts and pederasts," said 26-year-old Nikolai Grigoriev.

Shortly before the main rally was to begin, dozens of anti-march youths raced toward the site, throwing flares and setting off smoke bombs. Police made little attempt to clear the square, and the crowd grew. The few gay-rights supporters who attempted to enter the square were arrested by police or beaten by protesters.

While giving an interview to television cameras, a Green Party member of Germany's Bundestag, Volker Beck, was attacked by about 20 youths who beat him in the head. A gang of youths also beat and kicked a Chronicle correspondent attempting to interview one of the participants.

Supporters of the march said the government's refusal to sanction the event had sent a clear signal to police and extremists.

"It was shocking and disturbing. What I saw was a complete failure of police protection that was directly linked to the mayor's banning of the march," said gay-rights activist John Fisher, co-director of the ARC International gay lobby group in Geneva.

By banning the march, authorities gave "free rein to those who would perpetrate acts of violence," Fisher said. "We can only hope that what we saw was representative of only a small segment of society."

Organizers had timed the event to coincide with the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia. Despite growing tolerance for homosexuals since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia remains a deeply homophobic society. In one poll last year, 73 percent of Russians opposed same-sex marriages, and 43 percent said gay men should be incarcerated.

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