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proportion of homosexuals. They take this step because of the lack of information about their nature. Deputies are child-killers. Homosexuality is good!" and "Children have the right to know. Great people are also sometimes gay; gay people also become great. Homosexuality is natural and normal". The applicants were convicted and fined based on these laws and their appeals were denied by
Russian courts. In a 2009 case brought to the
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Russian LGBT rights activists. Bayev had demonstrated with signs stating "Homosexuality is normal" and "I am proud of my homosexuality". Kiselev and Alekseyev protested next to a library holding signs stating "Russia has the world's highest rate of teenage suicide. This number includes a large
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Russian government's arguments that the law was necessary to protect children from sexual abuse and did not find a violation. Human rights lawyer Gabriel Armas-Cardona states, "Dedov didn't dissent out of a bias in favor of his country,
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Johnson stated that "here is an emerging consensus of opinion" that the Russian gay propaganda law in both its existence and enforcement violated the ECHR. Justine De Kerf predicted that the anti-gay propaganda law could not be upheld in Strasbourg because "this type of
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