Russian court jails three people for 'LGBT extremism'

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A court in the Russian city of Orenburg has sentenced three people to between two and seven years in jail for being involved in the "LGBT movement". [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] The two men and one woman were all employees of the Pose bar which was raided by police after a tip off by pro-Kremlin activists. It's the first such case of its kind, after Russia's supreme court declared "the LGBT movement" as an extremist organisation in 2023. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/

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