“They [beat] two of us … before that they took us upstairs and said that we have to “suck their cocks” and that we have to be burned,” the activists texted from inside the police station. Update: The eight Russian protestors were released around 12:30 Moscow time.
Elena Kostyuchenko being arrested in Moscow on Friday during a protest in Red Square.
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Police arrested a group of around 10 LGBT activists in Moscow's Red Square on Friday evening as they sang the Russian national anthem as the Olympic opening ceremonies began while holding a rainbow flag. The detentions follow the arrest of four LGBT activists earlier in the day in St. Petersburg for taking photographs while holding a banner opposing discrimination during the Olympics.
This video captured the police breaking up the group in Red Square before taking them to the Kitai-Gorod police station: