Moscow, Russia. Global Marijuana March (GMM). 13 marijuana marchers arrested May 5, 2007 by police in the Arbat Street area, and also outside the ARBAT police station. Some beaten. One hospitalized. 6 men sentenced in a kangaroo court that night to 10 days in jail. One man to 15 days. 6 women were fined 4500 rubles each (about $175). English report from participant: http://hvoya.blogspot.com/2007/05/global-marijuana-march-in-moscow-total.html Photos: http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2007mmm Video of May 5, 2007 arrests outside the ARBAT police station: http://tuganbaev.livejournal.com/1081105.html Later on May 5, 2007 there were around 30 more arrests at the evening GMM gathering in a park in the city of Moscow. Video of May 5, 2007 arrests in the park around the All-Russia Exhibition Centre: http://users.livejournal.com/_hvoya_/50204.html
Those arrested in the park were released without fines in around 3 to 4 hours. The Cannabis Walk in the park at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre, was the second part of the May 5, 2007 Global Marijuana March (GMM) in Moscow. The park is located at the VDNKH metro station. See this Moscow metro map: http://www.wtr.ru/moscow/eng/metro/metro.html - Arbat Street is located between the Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya metro stations in the west of Moscow.
More photos with forums: http://lenta.ru/photo/2007/05/05/marijuana/ http://blancanevies.livejournal.com/432177.html http://seva-otmorozkof.livejournal.com/21071.html http://sportloto80.livejournal.com/92719.html GMM at the park. http://gazeta.ru/2007/05/05/oa_238380.shtml Click arrows under the photo to see the slideshow.
Please forward widely. Info in English: http://www.globalmarijuanamarch.org http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2007mmm-graphics http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/05/07/024.html http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070505/64952829.html http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070503/64837337.html http://www.kommersant.com/p-10661/r_530/marijuana_march/ http://www.kommersant.com/p763789/Rally_Protest_Marijuana/ Sentencing. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/may/06/marijuana_activists_brutalized_b http://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/197 Sentencing. http://www.legaliz.info
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If the following pages are inaccessible, try later, or try the above list of mmmworld messages. 1366 1367 1368 1370 1371 1376 1377 Home: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/mmmworld -------- Original Message -------- Subject: For Interested person: Policemen are beating Marijuana march activists in Moscow! Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 04:22:28 +0400 (MSD) From: Eugene Kazachenko Dear sisters and brothers! My name is Eugene Kazachenko. I'm from Moscow, Russia. Today, some hours ago my friends from Marijuana march were arrested. They tried to stretch the banner with calling to legalize marijuana. The goal of this march was legalization marijuana for medical use. Now there are about 20 people arrested. The police was very cruel with marijuana activists. With fear for life of our brothers and sisters my friends and I are receiving periodical news of Radio station "Ekcho Moskvy" - (The Echo of Moscow": http://www.echo.msk.ru/ ). This is the only free radio channel, which real informs of social and political life in Russia. It informs that Police has placed people by faces on the ground. Police has dragged girls upon the ground and has beaten young men. Policemen have banged young men by their faces about parked cars. In the police department some young activist was beaten so cruel that this has caused coming an ambulance. The representatives of The Federal service of drug control have accused all delaying activists in biased attitude to narcotics. Without any reason they have accused participants of Marijuana March in propaganda of narcotics. At the police department some policemen are trying to plant the drugs to activists. However attorney was not passed to his clients for legal defense. On entrance with the sub-machine-gun in hands the policeman did not let to attorney to come into the door of the police department. Marijuana March was organized by Cannabis Legalization League (Please, visit http://www.legaliz.info/ ). At this moment all of delaying marijuana activists are in Presnentsky administrative (misdemeanor) court of Moscow (phone number of this court: +7 495 254-53-59). They are accusing for undertaking unsanctioned meetings. This position of government disagrees with 31 articles of The Constitutions of Russian Federation and Public International law. Though many religious confessions concern with a rehabilitation and spiritual counseling for drug abusers, however they never call any attention in regard to the realistic position of medical cannabis. Regrettably Christians and other religious circles of Russia do not raise a voice in rights protection of drugs consumers from unjustified state repression. Because of unchangeable and increased repressive policy of Russia in attitude to consumers of drugs the religious figures are positioning itself apart of to questions of government drugs policy. Hypocritically the majority of them tacitly agrees with official drug policy or on the pattern of flattering politicians they loudly convicts all people, which voice opinion for legalization hemp as a medicine. With respect, Eugene Kazachenko (MDiv of Moscow Theological Seminary). E-mail: e_kazachenko@yahoo.com; sabba@fromru.com Mob: +7 916 9808590 ---------end of forwarded message-----------
More 2007 GMM Moscow info in Russian: http://community.livejournal.com/carians/207069.html http://denis-de-vienne.livejournal.com/79193.html http://bizzzon.livejournal.com/14069.html http://news.mail.ru/incident/1321942/ http://bocharsky.livejournal.com/250902.html http://dmitrivrubel.livejournal.com/773068.html http://love5an.livejournal.com/112805.html http://micello.livejournal.com/25488.html http://hleg.livejournal.com/827083.html http://community.livejournal.com/legal_team/109481.html http://community.livejournal.com/legal_team/108772.html
More Moscow 2007 GMM photos and police action http://users.livejournal.com/_sonica_/384591.html http://cooland.livejournal.com/481924.html http://boozze.livejournal.com/24170.html http://rimona.livejournal.com/140792.html
"Putin skinhead whores report": http://matilda-don.livejournal.com/270778.html http://v-alksnis2.livejournal.com/20652.html http://ipch.livejournal.com/78486.html http://evgen-v.livejournal.com/152993.html http://www.dpni.org/articles/lenta_novo/1423/
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Photo to the right is of Maria Smirnova's hand after being arrested March 31, 2007 at a Moscow demonstration against universal military conscription. Photo album of March 31, 2007 Moscow demonstration.
Press release for April 27, 2007 press conference in Moscow called "Cannabis - Hemp is useful!" Maria Smirnova translated the press release.
Flyers below are from this page: http://www.legaliz.info/9/news/105 English translations of the info on the flyers are from Maria Smirnova. Her blogs: http://hvoya.blogspot.com and another blog. Latest map of Russian cities signed up for the May 5, 2007 Global Marijuana March. http://www.batchgeocode.com was used to create the custom map. Here is the format used below. Just copy and paste the text into the form there. Or substitute other cities and links. Be sure to select "Use Google Maps" from the URL dropdown menu in the Map Fields section below the input form. City|Country|URL Moscow|Russia|http://www.legaliz.info Chelyabinsk|Russia|http://www.legaliz.info Izhevsk|Russia Kaliningrad|Russia Novosibirsk|Russia|http://www.truebrary.narod.ru Orenburg|Russia|http://orensburg.legaliz.info Samara|Russia St. Petersburg|Russia|http://spb.legaliz.info
There is also a link at the bottom of the map to download a small Google Earth file for the cities. Just download it and click it if you already have Google Earth installed. For more info and free downloads go here: http://earth.google.com
Moscow, Russia. Global Marijuana March photo pages: 2007: http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2007mmm 2006: http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2006mmm 2004: http://gallery.marihemp.com/moscow2004mmm
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