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Rainbow NewsAfter Prosecutors' Visit "Coming Out" Suspended Its Public Activities
23 Jul. 2013
The "Coming Out", the biggest LGBT organization of Saint-Petersburg "suspends its public activities". The trigger to take such a decision was the prosecutors' visit with a demand to "immediately eliminate violations". Earlier, the officials from city's Prosecutor's Office accused "Coming Out" in violation of the law on foreign agents and later the NGO was fined by the court's order for the sum of 0,8 mln. Russian rubles.
The "Coming Out" was forced to suspend its publishing and street activities as well as other public actions for indefinite period. However, even compliance to that order does not protect LGBT organization from further prosecution. Whether the prosecution would be satisfied with it or not - the time will show", says the statement of gay activists that was sent to local mass media yesterday evening. "We still declare that we are not foreign agents. Such a word has discriminatory meaning and can't be applied to the organization that protects the rights of homosexual, bisexual and transgender citizens of our country. Today our goal is to support LGBT society in hard for everyone time. So we are ready to suspend our public activities only because of the possibility to have the right to continue extend our legal and psychological support and to continue our social work and render services for LGBT community of Saint-Petersburg. People need places where they could be true, be themselves and have a support", add gay activists.
For reference: The local prosecutor's office has seen a sign of "foreign agent" work in "Coming out"'s activities when this LGBT NGO was handing over a brochure "The Discrimination: what, how and why", when it was holding a campaign against the law "on homopropaganda". These actions, according to prosecutor's office, were aimed at "changing of political foundations" of the Russian state.
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