STRASBOURG: The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Georgian authorities failed to protect a 2012 gay rights march in Tbilisi, where demonstrators were attacked by religious detractors.

"Although given notice nine days prior to the march, the authorities... failed to protect the applicants' freedom to participate in the march from the bias-motivated violence," the court ruled in a complaint filed by the Georgian LGBT organization Identoba and 13 of the 2012 Gay Pride marchers.

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