ECtHR: Russian laws encourage stigma, prejudice and homophobia
By Emil Weber
Legal acts in Russia prohibiting the "public promotion of homosexuality among minors” actually “reinforce stigma and prejudice” and “encourage homophobia”, says a landmark ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg (photo: Nicoleon, Cour européenne des droits de l'homme, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Europe's top court decided on June 20, 2017, that Russia’s homosexuality law and protests against that law amounted to violations of freedom of expression.
In March 2009, Mr Nikolay Viktorovich Bayev held a demonstration in front of a secondary school in Ryazan holding up two banners which read “Homosexuality…
