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In , Irina Fedotova, a LGBT activist, submitted an Individual Communication to the UN Human Rights Committee. She claimed that the Russian Federation had violated her rights under Article 19 and Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The author submitted that the conviction interfered with her right to freedom of expression guaranteed under Article 19 of the Covenant. The author also argued that the Ryazan Region Law was based on the assumption that homosexuality is something immoral.

Police in Moscow have raided several gay clubs, local media report, a day after Russia's Supreme Court moved to outlaw the "LGBT movement". Club goers were briefly held and their passports were photographed during the raids late on Friday, Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti said. One attendee told the channel he feared he would be given a lengthy jail term. The police said they were searching for drugs, Ostorozhno Novosti said.

The head of Moscow's biggest gay club has asked President Vladimir Putin to take measures to protect the club from repeated attacks, which he says are part of an attempt to put pressure on its owners to shut the club down. Some people seized the attic of the Central Station club on Saturday, fully "dismantling" the roof of the building and stealing or disabling some of the club's utility equipment, Andrei Lishchinsky wrote in a letter to Putin, arguing that the actions were provoked by hatred toward gays. In his letter, Lishchinsky said he decided to address Putin directly because the president had on numerous occasions made remarks about the state of gay rights in Russia, saying for instance that the law approved this year banning "gay propaganda" among minors did not encroach on gay rights or create an atmosphere of intolerance in society, contrary to the opinion of the law's many critics. Saturday's attack was not the first on Central Station, one of only a handful of gay clubs in Moscow and one of the largest in Russia.

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