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Several LGBTI rights protesters arrested in St Petersburg<\/b><\/p>\n

Police in St Petersburg arrested several LGBTI activists on Sunday (2 August) for staging unsanctioned protests on a Russian military holiday.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators were protesting the city government’s repeated refusal to allow a Pride parade.<\/p>\n

Yury Gavrikov, the leader of an LGBTI group, did not even make it to his planned one-man<\/a> picket outside the Hermitage Museum in Palace Square.<\/p>\n

Gavrikov was detained as he left his home. He denies the charge leveled against him – cursing in public – and is being held at a police station while he awaits a court hearing.<\/p>\n

Several demonstrators that did make it to the square were confronted by paratroopers celebrating Airborne Troops Day, who tore up their banners and rainbow flags.<\/p>\n

They were quickly taken away by police.<\/p>\n

‘What they do here is not right, it’s terrible,’ veteran Alexander Fadeyev, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

‘We’re in Russia and not in America. Let them do what they want in America, but not in Russia.’<\/p>\n

But some online commenters noted with irony that the homoerotic displays of affection between the soldiers paratroopers ‘wouldn’t look out of place at any Gay Pride rally.’<\/p>\n

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Paratroopers Day in #Russia<\/a>. Although wouldn’t look out of place at any Gay Pride rally #photography<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/T5Pxp1VQtv<\/a><\/p>\n

— Rob The Bruce (@robster38) August 3, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Freedom of assembly is granted by the Russian Constitution but the country’s notorious gay<\/a> ‘propaganda’ law is often used to ban or break up Pride parades and LGBTI rights protests.<\/p>\n

Watch video<\/a> footage of the protest below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post Several LGBTI rights protesters arrested in St Petersburg<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Darren Wee<\/p>\n

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