LGBT+persons: ECHR condemns Russia

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The ECHR condemns Russia for violation of freedom of expression
The European Court of Human Rights supports six Russians accused of “promoting homosexuality with minors” on the Internet.
The Court concludes that Russia’s measures constitute a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to freedom of expression.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Russia on Tuesday for violation of freedom of expression, right to six Russians who had been accused of “promoting homosexuality among minors” on the Internet.
The applicants are six Russian nationals born between 1973 and 2000. It is the owner of a website and administrators of sites or groups on social networks, in particular www.gay.ruone of the most important sites relating to LGBT+ people in Russia, as well as the online project “Children-404. LGBT adolescents ”.
They were convicted of administrative offense and access to their sites or their pages was blocked on the grounds that they “promoted homosexuality among minors”.
The “promotion of non -traditional sexual relations” with minors is an offense punishable by a fine in Russia.
Human rights raped
In its judgment, the Strasbourg Court considered that these sanctions “aimed to limit children’s access to information describing relations between same -sex people as being fundamentally equivalent to relationships between people of different sex”.
The Court concludes that these measures constitute a violation of article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to freedom of expression.
Other decision
She also condemned Russia for violation of article 8 (right to compliance with privacy and family), overlooking an applicant who had denounced the collection by the security services of her user data on the Vkontakte network .
In a separate judgment, the Court condemned Russia for the inaction of the authorities in the face of the disclosure on the social networks of personal data relating to sexual orientation.
Moscow was found guilty of violation of article 14 (prohibition of discrimination), combined with article 8 (right to compliance with private and family life) of the Convention.
This decision followed the requests of three Russian nationals, a homosexual couple who married Russia and lives in Moscow, and a third applicant who left Russia with his spouse. They now live refugees in another European country.
The ECHR is responsible for ensuring compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights in the 46 signatory countries.
Russia was excluded from the Council of Europe in March 2022, after the invasion of Ukraine, and is no longer a party to the Convention since September 2022, but it remains an accountant of the violations committed until this date.
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