{"id":1928,"date":"2015-05-31T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2015-05-31T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T16:24:12","slug":"russian-police-stop-unsanctioned-pride-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1928","title":{"rendered":"Russian police stop unsanctioned Pride event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A gay rights rally in central Moscow was broken up on Saturday, May 30th by the Russian police. The police detained over 20 people, including some anti-gay protesters that had attacked the gay rights rally.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was held after Moscow denied the group the right to hold a rally within the city for the tenth year in a row. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/05\/30\/us-russia-gays-idUSKBN0OF0MP20150530\">Via Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Activists at Saturday&#8217;s meeting on Tverskaya Square near the city center were heavily outnumbered by black-clad riot police who had lined the square in advance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is lawlessness of Moscow&#8217;s and Russian authorities &#8211; what is happening here is a complete lawlessness,&#8221; said Nikolai Alexeyev, a leading Russian gay rights activist, as he was dragged into a police van with a bleeding hand. &#8220;We are just trying to hold a peaceful human rights action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters witnesses saw some of the anti-gay activists attack peaceful gay activists before they were separated by police.<\/p>\n<p>Two pro-gay activists on a quad bike, waving rainbow-colored flags and letting off orange smoke, were charged by the anti-gay activists and dismounted on Tverskaya Street, the main road leading past Tverskaya Square.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman A gay rights rally in central Moscow was broken up on Saturday, May 30th by the Russian police. The police detained over 20 people, including some anti-gay protesters that had attacked the gay rights rally. The rally was held after Moscow denied the group the right to hold a rally within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[96,102,94,68],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-moscow","tag-pride","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}