Russia arrests TikTok couple for violating “gay propaganda law”

“We were very scared … it became a living hell,” one of the men said.

Haoyang Xu and Gela Gigishvili
Photo: YouTube Screenshot

Russian authorities arrested a same-sex couple that is popular on video-sharing social media platforms and charged them with allegedly violating the country’s “gay propaganda law.”

On March 5, authorities in the southwestern city of Kazan approached 21-year-old Chinese national Haoyang Xu after he and his partner, 23-year-old Russian native Gela Gogishvili, had finished visiting a museum with friends, Newsweek reported.

Authorities asked Xu for his passport and student visa. He didn’t have them on him. After accompanying the couple to retrieve the documents, officers took them to the Yapeyeva police station and informed them that they had broken the propaganda law.

The officers allegedly forbade the couple from…

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