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Russia: Supreme Court Bans “LGBT Movement” as “Extremist”
Russia: Supreme Court Bans “LGBT Movement” as “Extremist”
Russian LGBT Community in Dire Need of International Support

(Berlin) – Russia’s Supreme Court ruled today that the “international LGBT movement” is an “extremist organization,” jeopardizing all forms of LGBT rights activism in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.

In a closed hearing, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Justice Ministry’s lawsuit accusing the “LGBT movement” of inciting social and religious discord. Russian authorities should immediately end this perverse persecution of LGBT people and concerned countries should support LGBT people and their advocates facing extreme risks and persecution in Russia.

“The authorities’ move apparently serves a dual purpose,” said Tanya Lokshina, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “It is meant to increase the scapegoating of LGBT people to appeal to the Kremlin’s conservative supporters before the March 2024 presidential vote and to paralyze the work of rights groups countering discrimination and supporting LGBT people.”

Under Russian criminal law, participating in or financing an extremist organization is punishable by up to 12 years in prison. A person found guilty of displaying such groups’ symbols faces up to 15 days in detention for the first offense and up to four years in prison for a repeat offense. The authorities may include individuals suspected of involvement with an extremist organization in the countrywide “list of extremists” and freeze their bank accounts. People deemed to be involved with an extremist organization are barred from running for public office.

In a November 28 submission to the Supreme Court, seven prominent Russian rights groups said that a decision to support the Justice Ministry’s lawsuit would be discriminatory and violate a wide range of rights. Since the organization the government sought to outlaw, the “International LGBT Movement,” does not exist, human rights defenders fear that the ruling will allow the authorities to arbitrarily prosecute anyone for any activities related to LGBT rights.

Russian authorities have long misused Russia’s broad and vague anti-extremism legislation to prosecute peaceful critics. In 2021, the Moscow City Court banned three groups affiliated with leading opposition figure Alexey Navalny as extremist. The authorities then brought new charges against the already imprisoned politician, accusing him of organizing an “extremist community” and inciting extremist activities, which resulted in an additional 19-year sentence.

At least four Navalny supporters were sentenced to prison on a range of extremism charges. Dozens of his supporters across the country were fined and arrested over old social media posts mentioning his anti-corruption work and other projects.

Additionally, for over a decade, Russian authorities have exploited Russia’s pernicious “gay propaganda” law to target LGBT people and activists. In December 2022, the parliament toughened the 2013 “gay propaganda” ban by extending it to cover all public information or activities supporting LGBT rights or displaying non-heterosexual orientation.

The legislation does not provide any exclusion for art, scientific studies, or education and perpetuates a false and damaging messaging that tries to link LGBT people with pedophiles, repeatedly referring to “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations and/or preferences, pedophilia, and sex change.”

On November 13, during the fourth Universal Periodic Review of Russia’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Andrey Loginov, Russia’s deputy justice minister, claimed that there is no discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in Russia because the prohibition of discrimination is enshrined in the constitution. At the same time, he described “gay propaganda” as “alien to spiritual and moral values of our multiethnic and the polyconfessional Russian society.”

Since 2021, after lawmakers included a ban on same-sex marriage in Russia’s constitution, authorities have designated 17 LGBT organizations as “foreign agents,” a term that in Russian has connotations of spying and engaging in sabotage. This designation subjects the groups to a range of stifling and stigmatizing requirements.

Earlier in 2023, Russia’s parliament adopted legislation that violates a wide range of transgender people’s rights. It bans health care needed by trans people, changing gender markers in official documents, and dissolving marriages of trans people. It also prevents trans people from adopting or taking guardianship over children.

With Russian LGBT rights organizations and activists already in jeopardy and the risk of prosecution exacerbated by the Supreme Court’s “extremism” ruling, countries around the world should provide safe haven to those forced to flee Russia in the face of criminal prosecution or other grave threats, Human Rights Watch said.

Other countries, and the European Union member states in particular, given their geographic proximity, should also enable activists who continue LGBT rights work in Russia to obtain long-term visas in case of emergency or to attend international events and meetings with colleagues, along with providing other support to Russian LGBT rights activists working inside Russia or from abroad.

“The assault on LGBT rights has become a symbol of Russia’s rejection of universal human rights, as the government positions Russia as the defender of so-called traditional values in opposition to ‘the collective West,’” Lokshina said. “Russian LGBT people need support now more than ever.”
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I like how according to Moscow, Russia doesn’t actually discriminate based on sexual orientation… they just view all gay people as paedophiles and terrorists that need to be thrown in jail. Plus you’d better believe Putin when he says 2 + 2 = 5!

Give it a few more years, and I’m sure they’ll be escalating to pink triangles and executions.

Unfortunately, this is almost the exact plan Republicans are going to carry out when they take over. They already identify all homosexuals as pedophiles, pornographers and terrorists, giving them the all the excuse they need to start the purges.
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I"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-04 04:49pm I"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me at all if this was a way to get cannon fodder to the frontlines via penal legions, well not officially but in practice.
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LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-04 04:49pmI"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
I don't think even the Putinists are stupid enough to issue weapons and ammunition to people they're explicitly planning to exterminate. They have enough worries about the loyalty of their troops as it is.
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Zaune wrote: 2023-12-04 05:49pm
LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-04 04:49pmI"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
I don't think even the Putinists are stupid enough to issue weapons and ammunition to people they're explicitly planning to exterminate. They have enough worries about the loyalty of their troops as it is.
Once people are on the front lines, when it comes down to killing members of an actively hostile military, vs their own possible hostile military, the other guys military becomes target #1.
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Also, comradery and loyalty to the other soldiers immediately around them in the same situation starts to kick in.
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Solauren wrote: 2023-12-04 05:56pm
Zaune wrote: 2023-12-04 05:49pm
LadyTevar wrote: 2023-12-04 04:49pmI"m wondering how many of those arrested in these raids are going to be conscripted to the Ukrainian front lines.
I don't think even the Putinists are stupid enough to issue weapons and ammunition to people they're explicitly planning to exterminate. They have enough worries about the loyalty of their troops as it is.
Once people are on the front lines, when it comes down to killing members of an actively hostile military, vs their own possible hostile military, the other guys military becomes target #1.
Also, if the Russians do put some of the arrested on the front lines, a lot of them may end up “KIA” facing the Ukrainians and/or mysteriously go “missing,” never to be found again.

Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried that as a propaganda piece during their eventual extermination campaign: “see, we gave them the chance to prove themselves and serve our country, and what did they do? Get shot in the back of the head by our execution squads Runaway and hide! They must be destroyed!”
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That's probably getting a bit Clancy. The internal police army is more than capable of dealing with that if they want to, and I don't think the Russian public needs more encouragement to be homophobic.

Anyway, on that note: https://www.equestriadaily.com/2023/12/ ... wn-in.html

Apparently the largest streaming service in the country has started labeling My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as 18+. Saw some people on Reddit claiming it's a fake/that it was already labeled that way before the recent law, but other people who seemed up on it were disputing that. Either way.
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Ralin wrote: 2023-12-04 07:07pm Also, comradery and loyalty to the other soldiers immediately around them in the same situation starts to kick in.
That also depends on if they're with others taken in the same raid, or if they're split up into other squads, or placed with commanders who are determined to see them dead one way or another. MIA or surrender would be the better option.
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While I still think this line of speculation is Clancychat it would be kinda funny if they went from "Haha woke Ukranian rainbow army" at the start of the war to forming literal gay conscript squads.
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Ralin wrote: 2023-12-05 05:42am While I still think this line of speculation is Clancychat it would be kinda funny if they went from "Haha woke Ukranian rainbow army" at the start of the war to forming literal gay conscript squads.
They can fight alongside the Russian neo nazi mercenaries and militias that Putin sent in to "denazify" a country where a Jew won its latest democratic elections with a land slide.
Maybe Putin can also look for satanists to conscript, to fight against imaginary Ukrainian/western satanists too (iirc that cannibalistic serial killer that got released the other week because he served for 6 months happened to be a satanist too. Seriously, Russian propaganda and projection seems to go hand in hand).
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