{"id":27848,"date":"2013-08-01T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=27848"},"modified":"2013-08-01T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:12:06","slug":"russian-lawmaker-admits-any-gay-athletes-or-spectators-at-the-2014-winter-olympics-will-be-arrested-for-promoting-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=27848","title":{"rendered":"Russian lawmaker admits any gay athletes or spectators at the 2014 Winter Olympics will be arrested for \u2018promoting homosexuality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Russian-parliament-issued-a-ban-on-spreading-gay-propaganda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-27846\" title=\"miaserakanner\" alt=\"The Russian parliament issued a ban on spreading gay 'propaganda'\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Russian-parliament-issued-a-ban-on-spreading-gay-propaganda.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Russian-parliament-issued-a-ban-on-spreading-gay-propaganda.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Russian-parliament-issued-a-ban-on-spreading-gay-propaganda-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Russian-parliament-issued-a-ban-on-spreading-gay-propaganda-496x300.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Openly gay athletes and supporters at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games may face arrest, according to a Russian lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Politician Vitaly Milonov said the terms of the law could not be suspended or selectively enforced during the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) previously claimed Russia had assured the safety of athletes and supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC told the Windy City Times earlier this month: \u2018The International Olympic Committee is clear that sport is a human right and should be available to all regardless of race, sex or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>The Games themselves should be open to all, free of discrimination, and that applies to spectators, officials, media and of course athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We would oppose in the strongest terms any move that would jeopardise this principle.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The controversial \u2018gay propaganda\u2019 law bans displays of \u2018non-traditional sexual behaviour\u2019 in public or in front of under-18s.<\/p>\n<p>The law allows the government to detain homosexual or sympathetic foreigners for up to 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>They could then face expulsion from the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Openly gay athletes and supporters at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games may face arrest,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}