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06 April 2012, 13:32LGBT activists for homosexuality propaganda in downtown St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, April 6, Interfax - Two LGBT movement activists have been detained near the Palace of Youth Creativity on Nevsky Prospekt in downtown St. Petersburg on Friday, a source with law enforcement agencies told Interfax.
"They held solitary pickets holding placards saying 'Gays are normal'. By doing so they violated Article 7.1 of the St. Petersburg Code of Administrative Violations, which means they made public actions aimed at the propaganda of homosexuality and bisexuality among minors," the source said.
A local Justice of the Peace will soon hear their case, he said.
According to Nikolay Alexeyev, the leader of the LGBT movement in Russia, the activists will insist on their innocence. "But if the Justice of the Peace finds them guilty of homosexuality propaganda, we will go to the Constitutional Court complaining about the law [on homosexuality]," he said.
The activists are going to appeal their possible verdict even in the European Court of Human Rights, he added.
Those detained may be fined 5,000 rubles for homosexuality propaganda. If they are found guilty of violating rules of staging pickets they may be arrested.
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