The club patrons were found guilty of “petty hooliganism” and put under administrative arrest as punishment.

Summary

Russian security forces raided three Moscow nightclubs, detaining 12 people on charges of “petty hooliganism” amid anti-LGBTQ enforcement.

The raids occurred a year after Russia’s Supreme Court labeled LGBTQ activism “extremist,” intensifying crackdowns on LGBTQ rights under Putin’s regime.

Videos showed clubgoers forced to the ground, with exits blocked and interrogations conducted. Sporadic raids on LGBTQ spaces have been reported since the 2022 ruling.

Russia’s LGBTQ restrictions, including its expanded “gay propaganda law,” have drawn criticism as part of a broader suppression of LGBTQ communities.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    373·
    8 days ago

    A dozen Moscow clubgoers found guilty after persecuted by anti-LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ raids

    You know it’s bad when imperial news is framing alt-imperial fascism as justice.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    25·
    8 days ago

    Gay clubs aren’t illegal in Russia, but under the propaganda laws, you may be committing a crime if you publicly appear to be having a good time whilst gay.

    • drathvedro@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      Wasn’t even public, most of those events were private, behind close doors, with entrance by invites only. That’s the biggest hipocrisy of propagandists and lawmakers, they kept saying “we dont care if you’re gay or lesbian as long as you dont flaunt it, we dont opress minorities, were just protecting the kids”, and then they break into closed clubs and apartments anyway, just to make a show out of it.

  • brlemworld@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    You can’t call it extremism and give petty hooliganism charges. That’s like calling someone who threw a gun wrapper on the ground a terrorist.