Moscow, November 14, Interfax - The organizers of a gay-pride parade
scheduled to take place in Moscow on May 27 have filed an appeal with the
Moscow City Court's presidium protesting a court ban.

"The court resolutions are illegal and must be overturned because they
seriously violate the norms of the law of rights," the appeal says.

The action's organizers want the court presidium to annul the Tverskoy
court's ruling dated May 26 and the Moscow City Court's ruling dated
September 19 and to "issue a new court ruling regarding the claims."

Nikolay Alexeyev, one of the persons behind the gay-pride parade, said that
the Moscow City Court's presidium "is not an obligatory judicial institution
for the procession's organizers on their way to the European Court of Human
Rights."

"But we decided that we should use all opportunities to appeal illegal
rulings within the framework of the Russian judicial system to avoid
criticism of Russia in Strasbourg. Simultaneously, we are preparing a
complaint with the European court," he said.

An application for permission to stage a gay-pride parade on Myasnitskaya
Street in downtown Moscow on May 27 was submitted on May 15. On May 19, the
city government rejected the application, explaining that "the venue for the
procession cannot be closed to traffic."

The Tverskoy court upheld the Moscow government's ruling on May 26. The
Moscow City Court's panel for civil cases backed the decisions of the
Tverskoy court and the Moscow administration on September 19.


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