Sep 26, 2007Quickie Link: Gay Activists Fined for Taking Part in Protest in Russia
By vanrozenheim
(Russia) - The six gay activists who were arrested when they demonstrated against the ban in Russia on gays donating blood have been fined by a Moscow court. They were charged under Article 20.2 of the Code on Administrative Offences for staging an unauthorised public event outside Ministry of Health and Social Development in Moscow on September 14. Alexey Davydov, co-ordinator of the LGBT Right movement and organiser of the demonstration, was fined 1,000 roubles (about £20 or $40) by the Tverskoi district court judge Nalalya Dyatlova. The other five were each fined 500 roubles. The six activists have vowed, if necessary, to take the matter to the European Court.
