A picketer holding a “Stop Homophobia” poster was detained on Red Square

Police in Moscow have detained an LGBT activist named Artyom, who walked onto Red Square holding a "Stop Homophobia" banner. This was reported to OVD-Info by the detainee himself.

The young man was taken to the police department in the Kitay-gorod district. He is charged with violating the law on rallies, but a specific administrative article has not yet been named.

Sergei Telnov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, went to the department to visit the detained activist.

17:05 The detainee was released with a protocol on participation in an uncoordinated public action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), lawyer Sergei Telnov reports. Consideration of the activist's case will take place on July 20 in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow.

• Participants in various actions are regularly detained on Red Square: eco-activists who wanted to record a video message, participants in single-person pickets with posters about Putin , against the constitutional reform or in support of protesters in Belarus , actionists and simply picketers with a smiley face or a blank sheet of paper . According to the federal law on rallies, the procedure for holding public events on Red Square is determined personally by the President of the Russian Federation.