Yes I’m all over Russia like a bad rash today. This business of calling for people to be burned alive gets on my nerves.
Human Rights Watch reported on the ECHR’s ruling in October 2010.
In a stinging ruling issued against Russia, the European Court of Human Rights rebuked the Moscow authorities for repeatedly denying activists the right to hold gay pride marches, Human Rights Watch said today. The court, ruling on October 21, 2010, said the ban violated the right to freedom of assembly. It also ruled that the Moscow authorities had unlawfully discriminated against activist Nikolay Aleksandrovich Alekseyev and the organizers of gay pride events on the basis of sexual orientation, and had denied them a remedy having violated their rights.
And yet, oh look, more than three years later they’re behaving worse instead of better. [Read more…]