The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan ordered the arrest for 7 days and then expulsion from the country of 21-year-old blogger, Chinese citizen and student of Kazan State University Haoyang Xu, finding him guilty of spreading “LGBT propaganda”. This is reported by “Idel. Realities.
On the eve of Haoyang Xu and Gela Gogishvili, a young LGBT couple who maintains a tiktok account and a telegram channel about their lives, were detained and taken to police station No. 16 «Yapeev». There, protocols were drawn up against them under Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. Gogiashvili later told OVD-Info that he was released and Xu was kept at the police station overnight.
Bloggers said that recently they were pursued by homophobes and threatened with violence. According to Gogishvili, back in early March bloggers found out from homophobic public pages that they had been denounced to the police. In particular, this was done by St. Petersburg activist Timur Bulatov. “Bulatov organized the persecution. Homophobes began to write that they would kill us, execute us and castrate us. We received a huge number of insults and threats,” said Gogishvili.
The administrative case against Gogishvili will be considered by the court district No. 1 in the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan, the date of the meeting is still unknown.
of any age entered into force on December 5, it provides for fines of up to 5 million rubles for legal entities and up to 400 thousand rubles for citizens for «propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, preferences and sex change» (Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). At the same time, foreigners are threatened with expulsion from Russia.
As part of the new law, the deputies also banned the broadcasting of LGBT topics in advertising, cinema and the media. Since then, Roskomnador has been blocking the sites of LGBT projects, and the Ministry of Justice has declared them “foreign agents,” as their agenda “contradicts state policy to preserve and strengthen traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.”
At the end of January, protocols about “LGBT propaganda and gender reassignment” were bloggers Dasha Kareika and Hilmi Forks. In addition, Moscow courts began expelling transgender sex workers from Russia in similar administrative cases.