Ten police vans are parked outside the Dnipro subway station where the gay pride parade was due to take place, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent said.Īmnesty International denies that it urged the organizers to cancel the parade.
The press assembled near the Darnytsia subway station.ĭuring the press briefing someone with a mask on his face pushed the organizers, shouting, 'Out of Ukraine' and then sprayed something from a spray bottle into the eyes of an organizing committee representative. The organizers kept the venue in secret, Karasiychuk. The organizers decided to cancel the parade because 'a large number of nationalist and religious organizations' came to the venue, he said. 'Following the recommendation by Amnesty International which monitors safety issues during the public demonstration planned as part of the KyivPride from May 19-21, it was decided not to hold the parade at the earlier selected venue,' the chairman of the KyivPride 2012 organizing committee, Taras Karasiychuk, told reporters, according to Interfax newswire. The gay pride parade which was due to take place in Kyiv on Sunday has been canceled over fears for the safety of its participants, according to the organizing committee of the international KyivPride 2012 forum and festival.
