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Rainbow NewsThe nationalists "took control" of the court trial against the LGBT organization "Coming Out" in St. Petersburg
12 Jun. 2013
The second hearing of the court trial against LGBT organization "Coming Out" took place on a charge of the violation of Art. 19.34 of the Administrative Code, the so-called law on "foreign agents." The examination of the case was postponed once again for one week.
This time, the Court limited the interrogation to hearing of two witnesses and reviewed the requests from the prosecution and defense. The lawyer of the LGBT organization "Coming Out" continued to insist on the dismissal of the case. The motions of the defense about the request of documentary evidence of the grounds for the prosecutor's investigation, and to dismiss the case as the prosecutors did not have the right to initiate the cases on administrative offenses in relation to the legal entities, were rejected.
The prosecutor requested to attach to the case a document with no stamps or signatures which, according to the prosecution authorities, was a request filed by Coming Out to the consulate of Nederland’s. But "Coming Out" had not submitted such a document to the prosecution office.
"The text of the proposed request wasn't submitted by our organization. We do not know what this document is and where it came from. At the next meeting, we consider it necessary to get acquainted with the presented translation, as it contains a large amount of legal information, and we will provide the original text of the request" - said Dmitry Bartenev, the lawyer of "Coming Out".
There was an organized group of nationalists present in the court, some of them were allowed into the courtroom. In the courtroom they supported with applause and cheers each judge's refusal to the petitions of "Coming Out." Among them there was also a man who had attacked one of the LGBT participants in a peaceful demonstration on May 1, 2012. To prevent possible violence by nationalists the police were called in and they accompanied the human rights defenders and members of the media after completion of the trial to the bus stop.
"The whole case was made "on a napkin" and the prosecution only provides contrived proofs which are accepted by the court with no doubts just to quickly condemn the organization. We believe that we are not engaged in political activities and have no intentions to be filed in the registry. It is absurd to consider the protection of the rights of Russian citizens to be the activities in the interests of a foreign state "- a view expressed by Olga Lenkova an activist of " Coming Out ".
The next court hearing of "Coming Out" will be held on June 19, 2013.
May we remind you that human rights LGBT film festival "Side by Side" was fined 500,000 rubles (ˆ11,660) in June 6, 2013 for attempting to change the political foundations of the Russian Federation. Spreading a message of tolerance and speaking out against homophobic laws, according to the Court, it violated the provisions of the law on NGOs and refused to confess it was a "foreign agent." Besides "Coming Out", the fund that sponsors the "Russian LGBT Network" may face the same amount of fine.
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