Russian OMON riot police officers detain British human rights activist Peter Tatchell as gay rights activists try to hold a demonstration in downtown Moscow Sunday, May 27, 2007. Russian police detained gay rights activists, including at least two European lawmakers, as they tried to hold a demonstration in downtown Moscow on Sunday while conservatives punched the activists and pelted them with eggs. The demonstrators, appearing to number less than 100, tried to present a letter signed by some 40 European lawmakers to the office of Moscow’s mayor, appealing the city’s ban on a march they wanted to conduct. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)