The Ural artist Alisa Gorshenina has been fined 100,000 roubles (approximately US$1,100) under the “LGBT propaganda” offence (part 3, article 6.21 of the Administrative Code), she shared on Instagram.
On 24 April, Gorshenina went to the police station for an administrative offence report to be filed, but in the end three reports were drawn up: for “discrediting the army” (part 1, article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code), “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” (part 3, article 6.21 of the Administrative Code) and displaying banned symbols (part 1, article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).
That night, the artist was held in a basement cell in the police station in Nizhny Tagil, a city in the Urals. In the morning, she was taken to court in Yekaterinburg, also in the Urals, where she was jailed for 10 days on the banned symbols report.
“From 25 April to 4 May, I was held in the local special detention facility. The day I spent in the basement and the police station in Nizhny Tagil was counted towards my sentence,” Gorshenina said. “I’m not sure I want to say anything about the detention facility right now, so I’ll keep it brief with a quote from my personal diary, which I kept throughout these days: ‘This is not an unbearable place, but being here is unbearable.’”
On 5 May, Gorshenina was fined for the two remaining reports, totalling 145,000 roubles (approximately US$1,600).
Asya Sokolova for OVD-Info
The adoption of the “LGBT propaganda” law marked not only widespread censorship but also intensified repression against LGBTQ people and the organisations that support them. With the designation of the “International LGBT Movement” as an “extremist organisation,” this pressure has increased once again.
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