30 Dec, 2024

Andrey Kotov was arrested on the charges of violating the ban on “LGBT propaganda”

Andrey Kotov © VK

Travel agency owner Andrey Kotov, who was accused of arranging ‘gay tours’ in Russia and abroad, has been found dead in his cell in Moscow where he awaited trial for extremism charges.

Kotov’s body with signs of suicide was discovered in the Vodnik pre-trial detention center on Sunday, news agency TASS reported, citing police. His death was confirmed by his lawyer Leysan Mannapova, as well as Eva Merkachyova, a member of the presidential Human Rights Council.

The owner of the firm ‘Man Travel’ was arrested in late November. According to the Moscow court system, police believed Kotov was organizing tours that involved “propaganda of the ideology of the LGBT movement.” TASS cited a police official as claiming that Kotov was planning such a trip to Egypt during the New Year holiday season.

Russia outlawed “LGBT propaganda” in 2022, after which “international LGBT movement” was designated as an extremist group.

Kotov denied any wrongdoing and accused police of torture. “My phones have photos and videos of participants going to museums, sailing on a motorboat and sunbathing. It is perfectly clear that these were ordinary tours. There was no propaganda of any kind, let alone extremism,” Kotov said shortly after his arrest.

Throughout 2024, police raided multiple gay bars and clubs and busted “LGBT gatherings” in other locations in major cities. In March, a court in Orenburg, city near the border with Kazakhstan, ordered the arrest of a manager and an art director of a local gay nightclub, ‘Pose’.

Althought homosexuality itself is not banned in Russia, courts and law enforcement have broad discretion in defining what constitutes “propaganda” of same-sex relations.

“Homosexual relationships and propagandizing those relationships are different things,” Human Rights Council chief Valery Fadeev told news agency RBC earlier this month.

“A homosexual relationship, that’s private life. And no one interferes with that. Gays have always been around, in all times, more or less,” Fadeev said.

https://www.rt.com/russia/610179-andrey-kotov-found-dead/

John J
He would be a hit in Palm Springs. A popular muscle fudge packing crew there.

John J
I remember San Francisco in the 1980’s. It was all about the rights of gays. OK, whatever. But the US Deep State CIA Department Cabal found a way to use those new rights to infiltrate other countries, create protests, install elected officials using billions in bribes funneled into covert agencies to subvert and control a country. The woke gay types even worked with Nazi types in Ukraine to achieve anarchy and now mass murder. Nothing good about it, foreigners are allowed in under a Trojan horse ruse.

Mikael-Europe
American Zionists people and UK zionnnnnist people.. promote the gay culture in every country. They want to destroy every family and people with morals.