ILGA-Europe welcomes today’s Lithuanian court decision to allow Baltic Pride march on main city avenue: “We congratulate the Lithuanian Gay League and Baltic LGBTI activists who have pressed on to ensure that their right to freedom of assembly is guaranteed. We also congratulate the Lithuanian justice system for taking such a decision and rejecting the
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A Vilnius court on Friday ruled that Vilnius City Municipality should issue a permit for the LGBT pride parade along the city’s central Gedimino Avenue. The court satisfied the complaint filed by the Lithuanian Gay League, which asked to annul the decision of the city authorities to ban the rally on Gedimino Avenue, authorizing the
No minority is discriminated in Lithuania, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in Strasbourg in response to MEPs’ questions on the situation of sexual and ethnic minorities in the Baltic country. The president assured journalists that LGBT marches were not banned in Lithuania and discussions only concerned their location. Read more at 15min.lt
In response to the letter by the Vilnius City Major Mr. Artūras Zuokas to the Members of the European Parliament regarding the ban on the Baltic Pride 2013 March for Equality, Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) would like to provide some additional information in relation to the unfortunate situation, described by the Mayor in his contribution.
Vilnius Regional Administrative Court on Tuesday accepted an appeal by the Lithuanian Gay League against Vilnius authorities’ decision to bar an LGBT march from the capital’s central Gedimino Avenue. “The emergency hearing of the appeal will take place at 2 PM on Wednesday,” Jolanta Talutienė, spokeswoman for the court, told BNS. The Lithuanian Gay League
Organizers of the LGBT pride parade in Vilnius have taken to court the city authorities’ refusal to allow the event on the central Gedimino Avenue. “The appeal was filed yesterday,” Vladimir Simonko, the leader of the Lithuanian Gay League, confirmed to BNS on Saturday. The municipality maintains that the permit to march along the central
Two activists representing Lithuanian Gay League visited Denmark last week to talk about Baltic Pride 2013. The invitation came from Female Oxygen, a group of lesbian activists. The schedule of the visit was busy, with many meetings, interviews and fund-raising events. Our first meeting was with Lars Aslan Rasmussen, Member of the Copenhagen City Council
Association “Lithuanian Gay League” (LGL) is of a position that the refusal by the Vilnius City Municipality not to allow for the Baltic Pride 2013 March for Equality to proceed on the Gediminas Avenue constitutes disproportionate limitation on the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly by the local LGBT* community, thus constituting the actual
International nongovernmental organization Amnesty International has condemned a decision by Vilnius authorities to ban a gay march through the Lithuanian capital’s central Gedimino Avenue, and pledged to continue pressure on the country’s government. “Maybe I can just say that Amnesty International is very disappointed about the city council’s decision today,” Amnesty International representative Helle Jacobsen
The organisers submitted their request to march on the city’s main avenue during the Pride March, which is scheduled to take place in Vilnius on 27 July, many months ago; the city refused the grant permission to hold the event at the requested venue without offering an alternative. ILGA-Europe is appalled by the failure of