Andrei Kotov, a Russian male that had actually arranged traveling trips for LGBTQ+ individuals, has actually passed away in pre-trial apprehension in Moscow, civil liberties teams and Russian media claimed on Sunday.
In November 2023, Moscow consisted of the “LGBT movement” in a listing of outlawed extremist teams, an action that efficiently forbade LGBTQ+ advocacy. In January, a club proprietor was jailed for “extremism.”
Russia has actually progressively punished dissent because the beginning of the battle in Ukraine in February 2022.
What else do we understand around Andrei Kotov?
Kotov, 40, was the supervisor of the holiday company Men Travel.
Last month, he was billed with arranging and joining “extremist” tasks.
The OVD-Info civil liberties team claimed that Kotov had actually been implicated of developing an “extremist community” commercial and dispersing “propaganda of an association recognized as an extremist organization and banned by the court [in Russia].”
Authorities did not define what “extremist” organization he became part of, according to the team.
The team claimed that Kotov reported being defeated and struck with a taser throughout his apprehension.
Investigators informed Kotov’s legal representative Leysan Mannapova that Kotov had actually dedicated self-destruction, according to OVD-Info lobbyists.
State information company RIA Novosti likewise claimed Kotov had actually passed away by self-destruction. It mentioned a police authorities as claiming that “cut wounds” were located on Kotov’s body.
Kotov implicated of arranging LGBTQ trips
Russian information firms and telegram networks near police declared that Kotov had actually been preparing a New Year’s trip for LGTBQ+ individuals to Egypt, independent information electrical outlet Meduza reported.
They likewise claimed he arranged an LGBTQ+ cruise ship on the Volga River in Russia.
Kotov rejected the fees, claiming that the journeys he arranged were common watercraft journeys and fishing expedition.
sdi/dj (AP, AFP)
