In November 2023, Russia outlawed the LGBT movement. Now, they included it on a list of extremist and terrorist organizations.
Russia added the LGBT movement to the list of extremist and terrorist organizations. It is maintained by an agency called Rosfinmonitoring who has powers to freeze bank accounts of the people who appear in it.
In November 2023, the Supreme Court of Russiaat the request of Ministry of Justiceoutlawed the international movement by considering it an “extremist organization.”
Judge Oleg Nefedov was the one who ruled “to recognize the international civic LGBT movement as a extremist organization and prohibit its activities on Russian territory.” This measure prohibits the propaganda, advertising, generating interest and encouraging integration of the LGBT community.
Russia’s bans on the LGBT movement
Tel Aviv LGBT Pride march
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The country of which he is president Vladimir Putin has made several decisions around the group in recent years. In November 2022, the Chamber of Deputies approved a law that prohibited LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and sex change. Then in June 2023, banned sex change surgery.
Due to the controversy surrounding these decisions, the Russian authorities assured that there is no discrimination or persecution of the homosexual community, but that the ban on public demonstrations has to do with the moral values From Russia.
Russia: two bar workers arrested for “extremism”
In recent days, a court in the city of Orenburg ruled preventive detention for two workers at a gay bar and they became the first case of “extremism” since the LGBT movement was considered extremist in the country.
As explained by the authorities, the agents carried out a procedure at the place where drag shows were taking place. In the same, “propaganda was made for the LGBT movement, banned in Russia”, which is why two employees were arrested.
In Russia, they warn that the organizers of any activity related to the group can be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Source: Ambito
