Sat 6 Feb 2016 In: International News View at Wayback View at NDHA
A man who gives advice to young LGBTI is the most recent person to be punished under Russian’s “gay propaganda” law. Sergei Alekseenko , the director of LGBTI support and advocacy group Maximum, has been conviction of “the dissemination of positive information about LGBT relationships to children” and fined 100,000 rubles (1950NZD) for the group’s website. Maximum was forcibly “de-registered” by the Russian government in October, almost two years after President Vladimir Putin signed the “gay propaganda” law. Human Rights Watch spokesperson Tanya Cooper says, “Russian authorities use the ‘gay propaganda’ law to harass and intimidate LGBT activists into silence.” She says Alekseenko will be appealing the court’s decision and calls for the law to be immediately repealed.
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First published: Saturday, 6th February 2016 - 10:10am