6 March 2014 

Source: Article 19 

On 28 February 2014, ARTICLE 19 and INTERRIGHTS submitted third-party interventions with the European Court of Human Right in the case of Bayev and Others v Russia. The case concerns the prosecution of three human rights campaigners – Nikolay Bayev, Aleksey Kiselev and Nikolay Alekseyev - for violating Russian legislation prohibiting so-called “homosexual propaganda.” The activists have been fined for their participation in demonstrations condemning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. [Read more]