Russia adds ‘LGBT movement’ to official list of extremists and terrorists [ Terrorism ]

Russia adds ‘LGBT movement’ to official list of extremists and terrorists [News Highlights]

• Russia has added what it calls the “LGBT movement” to a list of extremist
  and terrorist organizations, state media said on Friday.
• A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a bar administrator and its art
  director, accusing them of organising an “extremist organisation”…
• Russia’s state financial watchdog Rosfinmonitoring has added the so-called
  “international LGBT public movement” to its list of terrorists…
• Russia’s financial watchdog said Friday it had added what it calls the
  “international LGBT movement” to its list of terrorists and…
• A Russian monitor with the power to freeze bank accounts has designated the
  ‘LGBT movement’ an extremist organization. It comes after a…
• Russia has added what it calls the “LGBT movement” to a list of extremist
  and terrorist organizations, state m.
• A court in Russia sentenced a manager of a gay bar and an art director to
  two months of pretrial custody. It marks the first instance of…
• Authorities must review homophobic supreme court ruling and end persecution
  of rights activists, says Amnesty International.
• Pair are accused of roles in ‘extremist organisation’ and could face up to
  10 years in prison.
• It’s particularly reprehensible that members of a Russian nationalist group
  were allowed to assist the police in their raid of the drag show…