The Sovetsky District Court of Samara on the evening of July 9 considered the case of American pastor Jim Mulcahy, who had been policed ​​against LGBT people earlier that day. According to Oksana Berezovskaya, who represented Malkehi’s interests, the pastor was found guilty under the second part of Article 18.8 of the Administrative Code (violation by a foreigner of the rules of entry into Russia or the regime of stay).

American pastor Jim Mulcahy was detained at a meeting with LGBT believers in Samara. As reported on Saturday, July 9 in Rossiyskaya, four people burst into the room where the meeting was taking place, one of whom introduced himself as a local police officer. OVD-InfoLGBT-networks The pastor was taken to police department No. 3 in the Sovetsky district of the city. The police cited the need to check the legality of his stay in Russia as the reason for his detention. upd 18:15.

On the night of July 7-8, in the courtyard of Zhukovsky near Moscow, the car of the sister of the deputy, environmental activist, member of the Zhukovsky branch of the Yabloko party, Svetlana Bezlepkina, was burned. The deputy herself used the same machine. Fyodor Karpov, the head of the party branch in Zhukovsky, spoke about this by telephone at OVD-Info.

The two -day festival of alternative music RAW Fest, which was supposed to be held on the territory of the Mars plant in Moscow on weekends on July 9-10, was canceled shortly before the start. This was reported on the page of the event on VKontakte.

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