Moscow Police Raid Clubs Over “LGBTQ Propaganda”

Agence France-Presse reports:

Police in Moscow raided multiple bars early Saturday and arrested the director of a gay travel agency under laws criminalising “LGBT propaganda”, state media reported.

The raids came on the one year anniversary of Russia’s Supreme Court outlawing the “international LGBT movement”, paving the way for arrests and prosecutions of the country’s already repressed LGBTQ community.

Russian security forces raided at least three bars and nightclubs overnight “as part of measures to combat LGBT propaganda”, the state TASS news agency reported. Social media videos from the Arma nightclub, the former premises of the Mutabor, showed club-goers sitting on the dancefloor while riot police walked around shouting orders.

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Силовики провели рейды в московских клубах.

Полиция пришла в как минимум три московских клуба — Arma (бывший Mutabor), Mono и Simach.

ТАСС сообщил, что рейды были связаны с борьбой против «пропаганды ЛГБТ».

Видео: соцсетиhttps://t.co/cu1Xz7AyAW pic.twitter.com/GONS0HCSet

— Холод (@holodmedia) November 30, 2024

🚨 Russia: Putin regime enforcers raided 3 largest Moscow nightclubs on Friday night —
Simachev, Mutabor/ARMA and Mono.
Many men taken to the military conscription offices.
Women eventually released after their passports were photographed.
Raids with police K9s lasted for hours. pic.twitter.com/T4oeVZEDQE

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) November 30, 2024