The court fined activist Mila Zemtsova, who was detained at a Moscow rally against Mizulina’s bill, 20 thousand rubles.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Mila Zemtsova, a member of the Civil Society movement, 20 thousand rubles, reports Apology of Protest.

The girl was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (violation of the rules of holding a rally). According to the police, Zemtsova organized a series of rotating single pickets at the State Duma against bills prohibiting transgender people from getting married and having children.

The girl herself and her comrades insist that on that day she came to the rally as a correspondent for agency to cover the pickets. the Volnitsa

As a result, Zemtsova was detained with the rest of the protesters and was the only one left in the police department for 48 hours. The day after the activist was detained, single pickets were held in Moscow and St. Petersburg in her support. Their participants were also detained .

Zemtsova herself tried to leave the courthouse, indicating that 48 hours had passed since her arrest, but the police did not let her in. Fellow activist Lusine Minasyan, who was filming what was happening, was detained by bailiffs.

According to members of the “Civil Society”, Minasyan was “dragged by the hair, hitting his head along the way.” Minasyan herself says that she was hit in the face and hand. “Basically, I’m fine,” she said . against Minasyan As a result, a protocol was drawn up under Part 2 of Article 17.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to comply with a bailiff’s order).

In mid-July, a group of senators led by Elena Mizulina introduced a package of bills to the State Duma that would amend the Family Code. In particular, they proposed banning marriage and adoption of children by “persons of the same sex, including those who have changed their sex.”