Andrei Kotov, a Russian male that had really organized touring journeys for LGBTQ+ people, has really handed away in pre-trial apprehension in Moscow, civil liberties groups and Russian media claimed on Sunday.
In November 2023, Moscow consisted of the “LGBT movement” in a list of outlawed extremist groups, an motion that effectively forbade LGBTQ+ advocacy. In January, a membership proprietor was jailed for “extremism.”
Russia has really progressively punished dissent as a result of the start of the battle in Ukraine in February 2022.
What else will we perceive round Andrei Kotov?
Kotov, 40, was the supervisor of the vacation firm Men Travel.
Last month, he was billed with arranging and becoming a member of “extremist” duties.
The OVD-Info civil liberties workforce claimed that Kotov had really been implicated of growing an “extremist community” industrial and dispersing “propaganda of an association recognized as an extremist organization and banned by the court [in Russia].”
Authorities didn’t outline what “extremist” group he grew to become a part of, in keeping with the workforce.
The workforce claimed that Kotov reported being defeated and struck with a taser all through his apprehension.
Investigators knowledgeable Kotov’s authorized consultant Leysan Mannapova that Kotov had really devoted self-destruction, in keeping with OVD-Info lobbyists.
State data firm RIA Novosti additionally claimed Kotov had really handed away by self-destruction. It talked about a police authorities as claiming that “cut wounds” had been positioned on Kotov’s physique.
Kotov implied of arranging LGBTQ journeys
Russian data corporations and telegram networks close to police declared that Kotov had really been getting ready a New Year’s journey for LGTBQ+ people to Egypt, unbiased data electrical outlet Meduza reported.
They additionally claimed he organized an LGBTQ+ cruise ship on the Volga River in Russia.
Kotov rejected the charges, claiming that the journeys he organized had been frequent watercraft journeys and fishing expedition.
sdi/dj (AP, AFP)
