LGBT website founder fined under Russia’s gay propaganda laws
Yelena Klimova fined 50,000 roubles after court rules Deti-404 site guilty of distributing ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors’.
The founder of an online community for LGBT teenagers in Russia has been fined under the country’s law against gay propaganda.
Elena Klimova was fined 50,000 roubles (£540) after a court in Nizhny Tagil concluded that Deti-404, which has pages on Facebook and Russian social network VK, was guilty of distributing “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors”. Klimova said she would appeal against the ruling.
Kilmova successfully appealed against a fine levied by a court in the same town in January.
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