Posted on 07/21/2012 10:31:44 PM PDT by Jyotishi
SAINT PETERSBURG Seventy-three people have been prosecuted for violating new anti-gay legislation imposed in Russia's former imperial city Saint Petersburg four months ago, police said Friday.
The law which punishes public homosexual and paedophile "propaganda" with fines of up to 500,000 rubles (12,800 euros/$15,600) has been criticised by human rights activists as homophobic.
"Seventy-three people have been prosecuted for homosexual propaganda and one person for paedophile propaganda," Saint Petersburg police chief Sergei Umnov was quoted as saying by his press service.
No details were given on the offences or the sentences imposed.
The law was promoted by the ruling United Russia party and adopted by Saint Petersburg's city assembly in February.
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Do they accept the ObamacareCard?
Many immigrants from Eastern Europe I know Despises the Democrats, they sound just like their former apparatchiks over in the old country.
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