The Russian Justice Ministry is calling for a ban on the “international LGBT public movement” as extremist.
The Russian Justice Ministry has submitted a request to the Supreme Court to recognize the “international LGBT movement” as extremist and ban its activities in Russia, state news agency TASS reported on Friday.
Ban on promoting homosexuality
Last year, Russian lawmakers tightened the country’s LGBT laws, allowing authorities to impose financial penalties on any person or organization that promotes homosexuality publicly, online, in films, books or advertisements.
The law expanded Russia’s previous law against LGBT propaganda, which banned children from “demonstrating” LGBT behavior.
Will Russia recognize LGBT as an extremist movement?
News agency TASS reported that the Ministry of Justice has now “filed an administrative request to recognize the international LGBT public movement as extremist and ban its activities on the territory of the Russian Federation.”
The American news agency Reuters indicates that it is not entirely clear what the term ‘international LGBT public movement’ refers to, but that – in its view – it probably includes all attempts to organize activities for LGBT in Russia.
TASS reported that the Supreme Court will deliver a ruling on November 30.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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