Some gay rights activists were carrying banners reading 'Russia is not Iran', others were waiving rainbow flags.īritish gay rights activist, Peter Tatchell, says the mayor is behaving like a Nazi. Russian gay rights activists were joined by campaigners from America and Europe in what has become an annual event.Įach year the authorities have refused the organisers permission and each year there have been arrests and violence. Some of the attackers said they were members of the Russian-Orthodox church. The fighting started when participants of the march were attacked as they were trying to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin.
Police in Russia have arrested more than 40 people, including three global gay rights leaders, after violence broke out at an unauthorised rally of gay rights activists in the capital, Moscow.
