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Rainbow NewsCourt stated: Vykhod is a "foreign agent" due to dissemination of "such information" about "such people"
22 Jul. 2014
"Such information", "such people", "such organization" - these words were deliberately used by representatives of Justice Ministry and Prosecutor General Office during the Vasileostrovsky district court hearing in Saint-Petersburg. Judge Naydenova decided that Vykhod was an organization which had been functioning as a foreign agent.
"None of the defendants' arguments were accepted...", reports Vykhod, adding that "it was planning to file an appellation". However, the agency activists say "there is no confidence that their LGBT organization would not be enlisted in the "foreign agents" register soon and without any court's motion as it had been done recently with 5 major Russian human rights watch-dogs (incl. "Memorial" centre, "Yurix", "Agora")..."
"A representative of the local Prosecutor General was saying with agitation that in our state no one had been persecuted for one's opinion and with reference to the ruling of the Constitutional court was saying that "foreign agent" tag had a neutral meaning. The public attorney denied a contract nature of the recension of professor Kugai (it was supposedly saying that the Vykhod was engaged in "political activities"). The public attorney stressed that it was Mr.Kugai's personal opinion, he could have said about it in other way...".
Most frequent word during the hearing was a word "such". Justice Ministry and Prosecutor General office representatives stoutly refused to use any notion of homosexuality and of everything that is connected with it. That is why they were constantly saying "such people", "such organization", "such information". The judge many times wanted to clarify the meaning of "such" definition but the representative of Justice Ministry, as experts say, stressed that "it was not allowed to disseminate "such" information without a corresponding sign and it was not discrimination".
The court hearing lasted for more than 3 hours. During this time the judge found that publishing of a booklet was a sign of agitation and political activities. "A man has read a book, it moved him greatly, he may translate his ideas to other people, create a coalition and begin activity", cites a representative of the Vykhod the words of the justice as saying.
Thus, arguments of the Vykhod defendants saying that the LGBT organization's activities were not aimed at changing of the state policy due to the fact that the state policy towards LGBTQ people had not been officially declared and defined, have not been heard. And one of the most effective and active LGBT organizations of Russia - the Vykhod has been tagged as "the foreign agent".
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