Russia hands out first convictions in connection with anti-LGBT law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law
"Russia hands out first convictions in connection with anti-LGBT law
Courts begin convicting people displaying symbols associated with ‘LGBT movement’ designated as extremist last year
Reuters
Thu 1 Feb 2024 17.39 GMT
Two Russian courts have this week handed out the first convictions in connection with what the government calls the “international LGBT social movement” which was designated as extremist last year.
On Thursday, a court in the southern region of Volgograd found a man guilty of “displaying the symbols of an extremist organisation” after he posted a photograph of an LGBT flag online, according to the court’s press service.
The man, known only as Artyom P, who was ordered to pay a fine of 1,000 roubles (£8.69), admitted guilt and repented, saying he had posted the image “out of stupidity”, the court said.
On Monday, a court in Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, sentenced a woman to five days in administrative detention for wearing frog-shaped earrings displaying an image of a rainbow, according to Aegis, an LGBT rights group.
The woman was called to the police station after a man filmed himself approaching her in a cafe and demanding she remove the earrings, and posted it online."