In Irkutsk, police disrupted a preventive event of the AIDS Center in a gay club

In Irkutsk, on November 16, the police came to one of the local gay clubs for a preventive action of the regional AIDS Center and disrupted the event. this on VKontakte . reports Vasily Buchinsky, press secretary of the Center,

The police explained their visit with an anonymous call with a message about drugs distributed in the club. During the raid, about five special forces officers and two men in civilian clothes lined up the club's visitors against the wall, shone a flashlight into their eyes and walked around the premises with a dog.

After checking, law enforcement officers detained three people who were taken to a psycho-neurological dispensary for drug testing. Buchinsky writes that the test did not reveal psychoactive substances in the body of the detained.

• Preventive action of the AIDS Center in gay clubs takes place once a quarter. The staff of the Center organizes an educational lottery, distributes leaflets, conducts a rapid HIV test, the results of which are reported in 15 minutes.