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Russian LGBT activist fined for 'gay propaganda' family drawings
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS JULY 10, 2020 / 12:53 PM / UPDATED 10 HOURS AGO
Russian LGBT activist fined for 'gay propaganda' family drawings
Maria Vasilyeva
3 MIN READ
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian LGBT activist said she was fined 75,000 roubles ($1,000) on Friday on charges of spreading “gay propaganda” among minors by publishing drawings of same-sex couples with children online.
Yulia Tsvetkova and her lawyer said she was prosecuted over a series of colourful pictures, some showing two men or two women, holding babies or standing with young children, sometimes surrounded by rainbow-coloured love hearts.
The court in the eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur confirmed the 27-year-old had been fined under a 2013 law that bans disseminating “propaganda on non-traditional sexual relations” among young Russians - legislation condemned by rights groups.
“Today I was fined for posts about discrimination and how to fight it, for posts that family is where love is,” Tsvetkova told Reuters.
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Russian LGBT activist fined for 'gay propaganda' family drawings
Maria Vasilyeva
3 MIN READ
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian LGBT activist said she was fined 75,000 roubles ($1,000) on Friday on charges of spreading “gay propaganda” among minors by publishing drawings of same-sex couples with children online.
Yulia Tsvetkova and her lawyer said she was prosecuted over a series of colourful pictures, some showing two men or two women, holding babies or standing with young children, sometimes surrounded by rainbow-coloured love hearts.
The court in the eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur confirmed the 27-year-old had been fined under a 2013 law that bans disseminating “propaganda on non-traditional sexual relations” among young Russians - legislation condemned by rights groups.
“Today I was fined for posts about discrimination and how to fight it, for posts that family is where love is,” Tsvetkova told Reuters.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-activist-court/russian-lgbt-activist-fined-for-gay-propaganda-family-drawings-idUSKBN24B2IY
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