As many as a dozen individuals rounded up at gay clubs in Moscow this past weekend have been found guilty of “hooliganism” by a Russian court and sentenced to administrative detention. Three clubs were raided by Russian security forces Saturday night into Sunday morning “as part of measures to combat LGBT propaganda,

A number of clubgoers in Russia’s capital Moscow have been found guilty of ‘petty hooliganism’ after police raids on three venues under the country’s draconian anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda law. On Saturday (30 November),

Authorities in Moscow have conducted raids on several bars and detained the head of a gay travel agency, according to reports from state media, in actions linked to laws banning

The raids coincide with the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Supreme Court decision to classify the LGBTQ+ movement as an "extremist organization." The ruling followed a years-long effort to suppress LGBTQ+ rights in the country.

Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a travel agency serving LGBTQ+ customers under laws criminalizing “LGBT propaganda,” state media reported. The raids came on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s Supreme Court outlawing the “international LGBT movement,