from last nights late night bulletins-
Russia’s best known gay rights activist was arrested last night at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. And there are concerns as, so far, officials are not giving out any information about his whereabouts.
Nikolai Alekseev was about to board Swiss Air Lines flight for Geneva and had passed through passport control when he was arrested by Russian border police at about 7pm Moscow time.
No explanation has yet been given by officials as to why he was arrested.
He was taken to a closed room at the airport.
However, he was able to get messages out by mobile telephone of his arrest before his handset was confiscated as he was speaking with other activists at GayRussia.ru Website.
A group of three fellow activists, led by Nikolai Baev, immediately headed for the airport to assess the situation.
But airport police refused to give any further comment apart from saying that “Alekseev is not here”.
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