Warsaw – Thousands of people protested across Poland on Saturday waving rainbow flags a day after a gay rights activist was taken into custody for two months of pretrial detention.About 50 demonstrators were also detained by police on Friday as the activist, who identifies as a woman named Margot, was taken away in central Warsaw following a controversial court order.
The biggest solidarity protest on Saturday was outside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in Warsaw, where an AFP photographer saw several thousand people — some holding umbrellas with LGBT flags on them.“We are meeting to protest together against violence and systemic homophobia,” the organizers, a coalition of gay rights groups, said in a statement.“Empathy, Solidarity,.