Sarko: remember gay rights
In talks that will deal with the economic crisis and a new Pan-European security strategy, Russian gay groups write to President Sarkozy, head of the rotating EU presidency, and ask him to raise the issue of the repression they are subjected to from Moscow.
The organizers of the troubled Moscow Gay Prides wants the EU to 
raise the Human Rights issue with the Russian leadership.
The talks are meant to redefine EU-Russia relations after the end of the 1997 Partnership and Cooperation Agreement.
“Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association is
breached every day by Russian authorities," read the letter from the gay activists to President Sarkozy and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso.
Satanic
“Russian gays have no other rights than silence. We refuse this silence.”
The activists pointed out that they have been denied permission to conduct a gay Pride march, demanding equal rights for sexual minorities, every year since May 2006.
“The mayor of Moscow considers such marches as Satanic,” says the letter.
“We demand you to remind Russian authorities that EU should ask all its partners to respect essential human rights."
By the end of the year, activists will have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg all of the 164 banned gay marches that they attempted to organise in Russia over the last three years.
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164!!!!!
oh my gosh!
I knew the situation in Russia was far from rosy, but this number its incredible.
well yes, we have a few issues with this country, like energy security and dependency, and of course human rights.
we all know watt happens to the active news writers.
in the past 10 years, more than 3000 writers where killed because of their articles on corruption, exploitation and atrocities done by political lobbies.
I have no idea if the EU can do anything about it.
eldadevata wrote on 18/11:164!!!!! oh my gosh!
I knew the situation in Russia was far from rosy, but this number its incredible.
well yes, we have a few issues with this country, like energy security and dependency, and of course human rights.
we all know watt happens to the active news writers.
in the past 10 years, more than 3000 writers where killed because of their articles on corruption, exploitation and atrocities done by political lobbies.
I have no idea if the EU can do anything about it.
* The 164 number might come from the fact that when Moscow marchers were told they couldn't have Gay Pride on one day, the asked if they could on another date about 25 times... but it's still a high figure nonetheless.
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