{"id":20708,"date":"2013-06-30T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T07:10:40","slug":"dozens-arrested-at-gay-pride-rally-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=20708","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Arrested at Gay Pride Rally in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rally-in-Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20706\" alt=\"Russia Gay Rights\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rally-in-Russia.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rally-in-Russia.jpg 320w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rally-in-Russia-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>Russian police arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a rally Saturday that was declared illegal under a new law against &#8220;gay propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials in St. Petersburg deemed that the rally, which took place in a space designated for public demonstrations, violated the law. The statute essentially prohibits public displays of homosexuality, as well as talking about it to children.<\/p>\n<p>About 200 nationalists also gathered at the rally, chanting slogans such as &#8220;Sodomy will not pass,&#8221; and throwing eggs and rocks at the gay-rights activists, who numbered about 40.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run Itar-TASS news agency quoted an unnamed police official as saying police arrested dozens of people, including eight nationalists.<\/p>\n<p>The official said city authorities banned the rally beforehand for violating the &#8220;gay propaganda&#8221; law, even though using the space does not require the prior approval of city authorities, unlike other public rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s parliament passed a law banning &#8220;gay propaganda&#8221; earlier this month. St. Petersburg was one of several cities to pass similar laws at local level before that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian police arrested several gay rights activists and Russian nationalists who confronted them at a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[1585,13843],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","tag-gay-pride-rally","tag-russia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}