US EditionRussian LGTBQ+ Travel Agency Director Dies in Detention After Extremism Charges
- A Russian man was found dead in custody in Moscow after being arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers.
- The rights group OVD-Info reported that the man died by suicide while in pretrial detention.
- Prior to his death, the man rejected the charges and claimed law enforcement beat him during the arrest.
- The crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia has intensified since the Kremlin's actions in Ukraine in 2022.
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Man arrested under Russia's 'international LGBT extremism' law dies in custody
The director of a Russian travel agency arrested last month on charges of international LGBT extremism died yesterday while in custody in Moscow, OVD-Info reports.Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter.Andrei Kotov, 48, was found dead around 4 a.m. on Sunday at the Vodnik pretrial detention center, where he was awaiting trial on charges of supporting an international LGBT extremist terror…
Russian man arrested for running LGBTQ+ travel agency dies in police custody
A Russian man, charged with running an LGBTQ+ travel agency, has been found dead in his cell, rights groups and Russia state media have reported. Andrei Kotov, the director of the Men Travel agency, was arrested in November and charged with taking part in and organising “extremist” activities, in the wake of Russia’s Supreme Court designating “the international LGBT movement” as extremist. According to OVD-Info, a human rights group focused on e…
His lawyer was told that he committed suicide.
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