cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/52518794
The assault on anything LGBTQ-related in Russia continues. After hundreds of administrative cases and even criminal prosecutions, after bans on support organisations, the police have now filed a report against a 13-year-old schoolboy for “LGBT propaganda” and for displaying extremist symbols. Mediazona discovered the records relating to the case in the Russian court database (we are not disclosing his name or region for safety reasons). It’s illegal to prosecute a someone for this kind of offence at such a young age, so the charges have been dropped. But the boy now faces the risk of being sent to a special school for juvenile offenders.
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The tip toeing around what exactly the kid did is egregious.
From the context of the article I can only assume the kid showed an image of a rainbow flag since it kept mentioning “extremist” symbols. Just ridiculous.