Police raid ‘My Little Pony’ gathering and a gay night at a local club in Russia
Police reportedly arrested nine of the “most feminine-looking” men at the gay night raid.
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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Police reportedly arrested nine of the “most feminine-looking” men at the gay night raid.
Performers were stripped half-naked and forced to lie on the ground with patrons during the raid, which was caught on video.
Gay bars and a gay sauna were raided by police less than two days after the country’s supreme court declared the “international LGBT social movement” to be an “extremist” element.
Yelena Grigoryeva, who died after being stabbed and strangled, had been listed on a site urging users to hunt down and attack LGBTQ activists.
After a request to hold a parade was denied, demonstrators held a protest.
About a dozen people were arrested and convicted of "petty hooliganism."
The activist group says authorities attempted to shut down its latest production.
Russian police have detained five activists, who were bringing thousands of signatures from their Change.org Chechnya petition to the Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow.