Russia jails nightclub owner and staff in first prosecution over ‘LGBT ban’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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Vyacheslav Khasanov, 37, the club’s owner, received a seven-year jail term and was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million roubles

A Russian court has handed down significant prison sentences to the owner and two employees of an LGBT nightclub, in what authorities claim is the first prosecution under the country’s ban on the “LGBT movement”.

The court announced on Monday that the three defendants were found guilty of organising and participating in the activities of an “extremist organisation”. Their arrests followed a police raid on the “Pose” club in the southwestern city of Orenburg two years ago.

Vyacheslav Khasanov, 37, the club’s owner, received a seven-year jail term and was ordered to pay a fine of 1 million roubles ($12,755). Club manager Diana Kamilyanova, 30, was jailed for six years and three months, while art director Alexander Klimov, 23, received a sentence of two years and three months.

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