More than 30 protesters in support of feminist Julia Tsvetkova detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg

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In two autoparts Kondratiev counted 32 people. According to him, the detainees were taken to the Luzhniki police department. In the first batch of detainees was a journalist Denis Styazhkin.

MBX Media reports 37 detainees.

Two people were detained at a similar picket in St. Petersburg, one of them is public defender Vladimir Vasilenko.

On June 27, a large-scale online solidarity action “#Zayulyu” is also taking place, which was joined by dozens of media and social network users. “The female body is not pornography. The freedom of Julia Tsvetkova!” – participants state this stock.

Single pickets in support of Tsvetkova were also held in Kazan and several other cities of Russia. In Canada, Britain and Germany, her supporters planned to come to the walls of Russian embassies.

What will Yulia Tsvetkova be judged for?

The case of the 27-year-old resident of Komsomolsk-on-Amur received responses throughout Russia at the end of 2019, when she was put on trial for pictures on social networks.

Tsvetkova led several publicly dedicated to feminist and LGBT topics.

Under an article on ‘gay propaganda,’ she was awarded an administrative fine of 50,000 rubles in winter. More serious criminal charges are brought against Tsvetkova for the public ‘Monologues of the Vagina’, in which she published drawings and embroidery in the form of female genital organs.

The prosecutor’s office considered this a distribution of pornography and referred the case to court. The accused was placed under house arrest, she faces up to six years in prison. A process start date has not yet been set.

A few days ago, the police opened another administrative case against Tsvetkova under the article “propaganda of homosexuality among minors” for posting on VKontakte a picture with the caption “Where is family, there is love. Support LGBT families”.

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