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Police in Turkey arrest LGBTQ Pride March attendees

News Desk

Jun 27

More than 200 protesters, including journalists, were detained by Turkish police on Sunday for being part of the pride march. Local authorities had banned the march from going ahead again this year.

Eyewitnesses said that the cops made an effort to stop journalists from taping the arrests. According to the organisers, authorities denied detainees access to their attorneys and jailed more than 200 Pride attendees and LGBTQ activists.

On Sunday, small groups of people waving rainbow and transgender flags congregated in accessible locations for a brief period of time and chanted before being scattered and pursued by the police, who forcibly detained several of them.

“Discrimination is a crime, the rainbow is not,” one group chanted, while some others read statements to mark Pride week.

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