Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Russian LGBT activist is released

Nikolai Alexeyev, a prominent LGBT rights activist in Russia, said he believes the men who seized him in a Moscow airport last week were state security agents.

Alexeyev said the agents confiscated his phone and pressured him to rescind his complaints in the European Court of Human Rights against Russian officials who have blocked permission for an LGBT Pride event in Moscow.

International pressure may have led to his captors releasing him in a town some 120 miles south of Moscow