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Straight Russian Lawyer Arrested for Breaking Silence Law

Two demonstrators have been incarcerated following a picket of the Saint Petersburg anti-gay speech law instituted last month.
Less than 30 days after the  anti-gay censorship bill was signed in to law in Saint Petersburg, Russia, police applied the law for the first time this weekend, jailing two gay rights activists who picketed against the law. One of the arrestees – a straight attorney named Sergey Kondrashov – was jailed after unfurling a banner that read, “A dear family friend is a lesbian. My wife and I love and respect her, her way of life is as normal as ours, and her family is as equal as ours too.”