Russian Gay Rights Activists Have Signs Burned and Pelted With Eggs at International Women’s Day Rally
by Will Kohler
Anti-LGBT violence in Russia still continue on a daily basis despite the lack of reporting now that the Olympics are over.
In
the latest attacks a group of armed men were arrested in Moscow
yesterday after they disrupted a gay rights demonstration for
International Women’s Day by throwing eggs at the demonstrators and
setting fire to their placards. 12 of whom were arrested after the
attacks and are reported to have also been carrying concealed knives,
crowbars, and machetes.
LGBT
activists Igor Iasine, Nikolay Bayev, Evgeniy Pisemsky, as well as
several members of the Moscow Rainbow Association and other participants
held rainbow flags and placards against homophobia and sexism
yesterday.
According
to Grani.ru, Russian police demanded that rainbow flags should be
removed from the rally shortly after the demonstration started, but
allowed anti-gay protestors to continue. Violence broke out shortly
after, when a group of armed thugs attacked the LGBT campaigners with
eggs and attempted to burn down their placards.
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