Moscow district court rules gay pride picketing ban legal
22/08/2006
By
Nikolay Alekseev, National Human Rights LGBT Project GayRussia.ru
Moscow district court rules gay pride picketing ban legal
Decision will be appealed in Moscow City Court
http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=6912
On Tuesday afternoon Taganski district court of Moscow dismissed the claim of the organisers of the first Moscow gay pride against the prefecture of the Central Administrative area of Russian capital which denied to authorise picketing on Lubyanka Square on 27 May as an alternative to the gay pride march.
Attorney of the gay pride organisers Dmitri Bartenev said leaving court that “today’s decision of the court is illegal. According to the Russian law the right to conduct peaceful public events is realised in a way of notification and the authorities have no right to ban them. Prefecture had no legal reasons to ban picketing in support of sexual minorities rights in Lubyanka Square on 27 May”.
Head of the LGBT Human Rights Project GayRussia.Ru and the main organiser of Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev said on Tuesday that “the decision of Taganski district court will be appealed in Moscow City Court according to the procedure adopted in the Russian civil law”. N.Alekseev said that “as soon as we get the final text of the decision we will have ten days to prepare an appeal claim”.
During the court hearing on Tuesday representatives of Moscow authorities said that while banning the event they even did not consider its aims and goals and only took into account the numerous letters asking them not to authorise such an event in Moscow. The court announced a break in the hearing to allow the representatives of prefecture to provide evidence of such letters which they refer to but they were finally unable to do it.
The organiser of Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev said that “currently we already have one of our appeal claims in Moscow City Court. It is an appeal against the decision of Tverskoi district court delivered on 26 May which supported the ban on the march. Now a new appeal claim will be sent there against today’s decision of Taganski district court which supported the ban on picketing. The final decision on both of these cases within the Russian justice system will be taken by Moscow City Court”.
Nikolai Alekseev also confirmed that “in case our claims are not be satisfied in Moscow City Court we will immediately send a complaint against Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg”.
GayRussia.Ru
http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=6912
Decision will be appealed in Moscow City Court
http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=6912
On Tuesday afternoon Taganski district court of Moscow dismissed the claim of the organisers of the first Moscow gay pride against the prefecture of the Central Administrative area of Russian capital which denied to authorise picketing on Lubyanka Square on 27 May as an alternative to the gay pride march.
Attorney of the gay pride organisers Dmitri Bartenev said leaving court that “today’s decision of the court is illegal. According to the Russian law the right to conduct peaceful public events is realised in a way of notification and the authorities have no right to ban them. Prefecture had no legal reasons to ban picketing in support of sexual minorities rights in Lubyanka Square on 27 May”.
Head of the LGBT Human Rights Project GayRussia.Ru and the main organiser of Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev said on Tuesday that “the decision of Taganski district court will be appealed in Moscow City Court according to the procedure adopted in the Russian civil law”. N.Alekseev said that “as soon as we get the final text of the decision we will have ten days to prepare an appeal claim”.
During the court hearing on Tuesday representatives of Moscow authorities said that while banning the event they even did not consider its aims and goals and only took into account the numerous letters asking them not to authorise such an event in Moscow. The court announced a break in the hearing to allow the representatives of prefecture to provide evidence of such letters which they refer to but they were finally unable to do it.
The organiser of Moscow gay pride Nikolai Alekseev said that “currently we already have one of our appeal claims in Moscow City Court. It is an appeal against the decision of Tverskoi district court delivered on 26 May which supported the ban on the march. Now a new appeal claim will be sent there against today’s decision of Taganski district court which supported the ban on picketing. The final decision on both of these cases within the Russian justice system will be taken by Moscow City Court”.
Nikolai Alekseev also confirmed that “in case our claims are not be satisfied in Moscow City Court we will immediately send a complaint against Russian Federation to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg”.
GayRussia.Ru
http://www.gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=6912
