{"id":1476680,"date":"2024-02-01T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law"},"modified":"2024-02-01T17:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T17:39:57","slug":"russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/01\/russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia hands out first convictions in connection with anti-LGBT law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courts begin convicting people displaying symbols associated with \u2018LGBT movement\u2019 designated as extremist last year<\/p><p>Two Russian courts have this week handed out the first convictions in connection with what the government calls the \u201cinternational LGBT social movement\u201d which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/30\/russia-supreme-court-outlaws-lgbt-movement\">designated as extremist last year.<\/a><\/p><p>On Thursday, a court in the southern region of Volgograd found a man guilty of \u201cdisplaying the symbols of an extremist organisation\u201d after he posted a photograph of an LGBT flag online, according to the court\u2019s press service.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/01\/russia-hands-out-first-convictions-in-connection-with-anti-lgbt-law\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts begin convicting people displaying symbols associated with \u2018LGBT movement\u2019 designated as extremist last yearTwo Russian courts have this week handed out the first convictions in connection with what the government calls the \u201cinternational LGBT s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10477,7759,24,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476682,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476680\/revisions\/1476682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}