Russia: Court Rules Against LGBT Activist
Repeal the Discriminatory Anti-LGBT Law(Moscow) – A Russian court on January 18, 2016, found a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activist guilty of violating the country’s notorious “gay propaganda” law and issued a stiff fine, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian prosecutors should support an appeal, which the activist, Sergei Alekseenko, plans to file in the coming days.
Alekseenko was the director of Maximum, a Murmansk LGBT rights group that provided legal and psychosocial support. The Leninsky District Court in Murmansk, in northwestern Russia, found certain items posted on the Maximum’s website violated the law banning the dissemination of …read more
Source: Human Rights Watch
