In Naberezhnye Chelny, the court fined the former administrator of a gay dating group 50 thousand rubles

The Naberezhnye Chelny Magistrate's Court fined the former administrator of the group 50 thousand rubles under the article on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors” (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by Rossiyskaya’s lawyer Alexander Belik.

gay datingOVD-InfoLGBT-network Alexey Pavlov (name changed) was the administrator of the group until 2010. In 2010, he “left the group and forgot about it. FSB officers reminded him about her,” Belik said. Formally, Pavlov remained the owner of the group and could not relieve himself of these powers due to the features of VKontakte, and the content was posted by the group members themselves, for whom he was responsible.

because, according to Belik, the FSB decided to conduct a check on the materials posted in the group in order to add them to the register of prohibited information, but the prosecutor found out about this and sent the case materials to the court under the article on propaganda. At the time the fine was imposed, the only files on file were the FSB inspection materials and the decision to initiate an administrative case. The court rejected the request to conduct an examination of the materials posted in the group.

The lawyer intends to appeal the court’s decision and notes that Pavlov’s case is the first under the article on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” for 2019.