The Tver court of Moscow found illegal rally sought to convey to the General Prosecutor of the box with the two million signatures under the demand to investigate the harassment of gays in Chechnya. This was told to Agency “Interfax” in the “Open Russia”.
An activist of the organisation, Valentina dechtiarenko was fined 10 thousand rubles under part 5 of article 20.2 of the administrative code (“Violation of rules of holding rallies and demonstrations with participant”).
Respondents in the court the police said that dektaryenko and her colleagues “prevented the passage of people and attracted attention.”
In turn, the lawyer of the activists Henri Tsiskarishvili said that the detainees no one is notified about the action, not handing out fliers, shouted slogans and did not take the posters. For this reason their actions cannot be regarded as a rally or other public event.
May 29, held hearings on the administrative cases of two other detainees — Nikita Safronov and Alexandra Alexeeva. They also received a fine of 10 thousand rubles. An attempt to convey the signatures in defense of the Chechen gays in the Prosecutor General was taken on may 11.
From the beginning of April, “Novaya Gazeta” published a material that in the Chechen Republic are pursuing the suspects in homosexuality of men detained about a hundred people, and three were killed. The newspaper gave the investigators a list of more than 20 people have been illegally harassed.
Later, the Commissioner for human rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova said that the investigators failed to establish and question two of this list. “They are alive, healthy, have nothing to do with homosexuality, do not have any complaints”, she said.
May 26, the report of the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW), which has its headquarters in the United States. The lawsuit alleges that in the spring the law enforcement agencies in Chechnya raided the gays. Such men there were illegally detained and tortured.
Press Secretary of the head of Republic Alvi Karimov denied this information, stressing that “it is impossible to detain and harass someone simply not in the Republic.” However, on 18 may, human rights activists from the Russian LGBT network said that was taken from this Caucasian republics in other regions 42 gays.
The Kremlin said that the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya has denied the information about the persecution of homosexual men.