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RU: Twenty Protesters Detained at Unauthorized Legalize Cannabis Rally

MosNews

Tuesday 04 May 2004

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Police detained twenty protesters at the unauthorized 'World Hemp March' in
central Moscow. City administration had refused to grant a permit to the
organizers of the march, citing violations of state law that forbids
illicit drug propaganda. Despite this, a number of people came to the
previously announced meeting place at 3 pm Moscow time intending to
participate in the demonstration and rally for the legalization of
marijuana, only to be detained. A police spokesperson said that those
detained will be released in the course of several hours, once their
transgressions are documented, RIA Novosti reported.

The organizers of the march had spread the information about the meeting
place and time before obtaining a permit from the city administration -
which they were later refused. When the organizers of the march had learned
that the rally was forbidden by the city administration, they had announced
on Echo Moskvy radio that they could not promise to call off the march due
to the amount of people informed about the upcoming event. Flyers about the
march were still spread after the march was banned by Moscow authorities.

The rally was to be timed to demonstrations for the legalization of
cannabis in 350 countries around the world.

 

 

 

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