In Moscow, the Higher School student was arrested for 15 days for the demonstration of LGBT+ symbols

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Tverskaya District Court arrested a student of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Danil Morozov for 15 days under the article on the demonstration of LGBT+ symbols Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses and fined 50 thousand rubles under an article on public discrediting the Russian Army Part 1 of Art. 20.3.3 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation .

According to investigators, Morozov posted publications “ expressing a negative attitude to its own in Ukraine ”, as well as “ another information post of thematic content containing various symbols and attributes of an extremist international organization of LGBT ”.

Earlier, the publication “Important Stories” reported that in 2023, about 200 administrative cases were received by the Russian courts under the article on “Propaganda” by LGBT+. As the journalist calculated: Ki, this is nine times more than in 2022, and 1.5 times more than for all the previous years of the existence of the law adopted in 2013.

Anti-LGBT+ legislation in Russia

• After Russia decriminalized voluntary same -sex relations in 1993, the first restriction of LGBT+ people was the order of the Ministry of Health from 2001, which forbade homosexual men to become blood donors. Human rights: TsAM managed to cancel this ban in 2008.

• Since 2006, regional prohibitions on LGBT+ propaganda among minors began to appear. In 2006, such a law adopted the Ryazan region, and in 2011-2013 - Arkhangelsk, Kostroma, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Samara, Vladimir, Irkutsk regions, Petersburg, Bashkortostan and Krasnodar Territory. In the Kaliningrad region, the law adopted in early 2013 forbade LGBT+ propaganda among both children and adults.

• In the summer of 2013, the State Duma adopted the law Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses on the ban “LGBT+ propaganda” among minors already at the federal level.

• At the end of 2022, the Law on LGBT+ Propaganda was tightened, which also banned it among adults. The State Duma also introduced a new ban Article 6.21.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses to the Administrative Code - “Demonstrations of LGBT+” by minors.

• In the summer of 2023, the State Duma adopted a law on the ban on the transgender transition and the change of gender marker in the documents.

• On November 30, 2023, the Supreme Court recognized the “International LGBT movement” by an extremist organization.