A German convicted in Kamchatka for LGBT “propaganda” was expelled from the country

Alexander Daniel Roth, a teacher at the German Consulate General in Yekaterinburg and a German citizen, was deported from Russia. In April, a court in Kamchatka fined him 150,000 rubles for LGBT “propaganda”, the press service of bailiffs reports. On May 2, Roth was flown to Moscow, from where he took a transit flight to Istanbul.

Roth works in the Ministry of Education of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is the coordinator of the German language program. According to the court, in March, a German citizen “promoted non-traditional sexual relations and preferences” via the Internet by “imposing information” about them. Being an LGBT representative himself, Roth talked about the advantages of same-sex relationships to a 25-year-old resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The German citizen admitted his guilt in court.

On the same day as the meeting on the Roth protocol, the court in Kazan decided to arrest for 7 days, and then also expel from Russia the blogger and Chinese citizen Haoyan Xu. At the end of January, similar protocols were drawn up for bloggers Dasha Kareika and Hilma Forks.

The expulsion of foreigners from Russia on charges of LGBT “propaganda” was authorized by Russian President Vladimir Putin last December. So-called propaganda includes almost any information about LGBT people that does not condemn same-sex relationships. Fines from 50 to 400,000 rubles for natural persons, from 100 to 800,000 rubles for officials, and up to 5 million rubles for legal entities were introduced for violating the ban.