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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Gays, lesbians in worldwide call for end to homophobia AFP - Monday, May 18 BRUSSELS (AFP) - - Gays and lesbians raised a global rallying cry Sunday to end discrimination in a world where some countries punish homosexual acts with death, as they marked an international day against homophobia. ADVERTISEMENT The European Union spoke out in defence of fundamental freedoms based on sexual orientation or gender identity and voiced concerns about human rights violations. "The European Union rejects and condemns any manifestation of homophobia as this phenomenon is a blatant violation of human dignity," its Czech presidency said in a statement. The 27-nation bloc condemned the use of the death penalty, torture and arbitrary arrest of homosexuals "wherever they occur," the statement said. The global day against homophobia was marked in 50 countries, according to the Canadian organisers of the event. In Russia, around 100 people peacefully demonstrated in Saint Petersburg, a day after the arrest of 40 gay activists who had staged an unauthorised "Slavic Gay Pride" march in Moscow. "What happened in Moscow must not be ignored by the international community and by foreign governments.... Everyone saw how human rights and the rights of sexual minorities are violated in Russia," said Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev, who was released from jail on Sunday. The creator of the GayRussia.ru website claimed he had been interrogated for six hours by officials from agencies including the FSB security service -- the successor to the Soviet-era KGB -- before being left overnight in a cold jail cell with broken windows. "They treated us very badly. Over six hours, great psychological pressure was put on me and I was insulted in every sort of way," Alexeyev told AFP by telephone after he was released and fined for attending an unlawful demonstration. According to Quebec's Emergence Foundation, which initiated the global day against homophobia, Russia is among countries where there have been violent attacks on gays, lesbians and transgender people, especially in clashes with ultra nationalists. Homosexuality was a crime in Russia until 1993. "There are 192 countries in the UN, and half of them ban homosexuality, notably most countries in Africa, in Asia and Arab countries," said the foundation's president Laurent McCutcheon. Five countries punish homosexual acts with death, the foundation said. In Beirut, the gay rights organisation Helem (Dream) has organised a conference to call for repealing a law that imposes a one-year prison sentence on those who practice homosexual relations deemed "contrary to nature." Ghassan Mukarem, a leader in the organisation, said they have been trying to repeal the law since 2003, but instead the Lebanese authorities have been more rigorous in cracking down on homosexuality. The British government Sunday declared its commitment to fight prejudice and discrimination against gays around the world. "Last December the UK was pleased to support the first UN statement which called for the decriminalisation of same sex relations across the globe... supported by 66 countries," George Malloch-Brown, Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister, said in a statement. "We call upon those states that still have legislative measures in place criminalising same sex relations to remove them," he added. French anti-homophobia groups Sunday praised a health ministry decision a day earlier to no longer classify transexualism as a mental illness. Meanwhile in the eastern city of Nancy a memorial was unveiled for a gay man who drowned after he was pushed into the canal in 2003. But two French policemen working in the southern coastal city of Cannes filed a complaint Sunday claiming they have suffered "mental harassment" by several colleagues because of their homosexuality. McCutcheon said the anti-homophobia idea provides a rallying point for the world's supporters of gay and lesbian rights, and hoped one day it would be endorsed by the United Nations. May 17 was chosen because it was on that date in 1990 that the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses. 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