Russian thug boasts of beating up gay German MP at Moscow Pride

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Police in Moscow have been forced into action after a news magazine published an interview with a man who boasted about beating up a gay German MP in the city in May 2006.

More than 120 people were arrested in Moscow after campaigners attempted to hold the capital's first gay rights rally.

Volker Beck, a Green member of the German parliament and veteran gay rights activist, was attacked by 20 religious protesters and punched in the face while he was giving a television interview...