The Supreme Court of Russia banned international movement today LGBT in this country by considering it an “extremist organization” at the request of the Ministry of Justice.
“Recognize the international civic LGBT movement as an extremist organization and prohibit its activities on Russian territory”the judge ruled, Oleg Nefedovaccording to the Interfax agency.
The measure, which has “immediate” effect, prohibits propaganda, advertising, generating interest and encouraging joining the ranks of the LGBT movement.
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Of course, according to the source, the ruling “does not affect citizens’ right to private life,” since homosexuality It stopped being a crime in this country in 1993.
The hearing took place behind closed doors and was only attended by representatives of the Ministry of Justice, who submitted the lawsuit on November 17.
LGBT activists created the International LGBT Civic Movement organization, which until then did not exist, at the last minute in order to defend the rights of the movement, but they were not invited to the hearing.
The plaintiff, the Ministry of Justice, stated that “extremist tendencies”, which include “incitement to social and religious hatred”, were detected in the activities of said movement.
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Russian human rights organizations addressed the Supreme Court the day before to not recognize the LGBT movement as extremist, arguing that “it is impossible” to consider a civic movement to be a series of people who belong to a social group or are united by specific personal qualities.
Russian judge Oleg Nefedov announces the decision to declare the international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement in Russia extremist and banned during the hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia, November 30, 2023 | Photo: EFE/EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV
“This would be as absurd as, for example, calling all pensioners or people who belong to a particular ethnic group a social movement.”they pointed out.
Furthermore, they accused the State of wanting to “control the beliefs” of Russians, while instilling “‘traditional’ family values, supposedly incompatible with the activities of said movement.”
““It will also contradict the clauses of the Constitution that establish that Russia is a secular state,” They insisted.
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The activists warned that the organizers of the movement could be sentenced to 10 years in prison, to which we must add that any of its members will be persecuted.
In November 2022, the Duma (chamber of deputies) passed a law that completely banned LGBT propaganda, pedophilia and sex change.
Additionally, in June it banned sex-change surgical operations, causing widespread alarm among the transgender community.
Recently, the vice minister of Justice, André Luginov, He assured the UN that in Russia there is no discrimination or persecution of the homosexual community, and considered that the prohibition of public demonstrations by said group responds to the country’s moral values.
The 2020 constitutional reform introduced the concept that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, after Putin assured that, as long as he is president, there will be no homosexual marriage in Russia.
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