Activists attacked at Russian gay rights march
Russian police detained gay rights activists, including at least two European lawmakers and the British campaigner Peter Tatchell, as they tried to hold a demonstration in central Moscow today while members of a hostile crowd punched the activists and pelted them with eggs.
The demonstrators, appearing to number less than 100, tried to present a letter signed by some 40 European lawmakers to the office of Moscow’s mayor, appealing against the city’s ban on a march they wanted to conduct.
