First Convictions Under Russia's Anti-LGBT Law

A man and a woman face penalties for displaying LGBT symbols, marking the first enforcement of Russia's law against 'extremist organizations'.

Two Russian courts have handed out the first convictions in connection with the government's designation of the 'international LGBT social movement' as extremist.
A man in Volgograd was fined for posting a photograph of an LGBT flag online, and a woman in Nizhny Novgorod was sentenced to five days in administrative detention for wearing rainbow-colored earrings.
Both individuals were charged with 'displaying the symbols of an extremist organization', a law that includes the social network Meta and the LGBT movement.
A trial is set to resume next week against a photographer who posted images of rainbow flags on Instagram.
Russia's Supreme Court banned the 'LGBT movement' last November, continuing a pattern of increasing restrictions on expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity.