On July 30, Mr Isakov staged a one-man protest in the centre of the town of Kazan, Russia, holding up a sign which read: “Being gay and loving gays is normal. Beating gays and killing gays is a crime!”
According to Gay Russia, his mother and father helped authorities escort their son to the car where he was taken to a police station.
His father assisted police by bringing him to the ground as his mother stole the poster from his hands.
After his initial arrest, Mr Isakov was set free, although he was suffering from a number of injuries inflicted by police officers.
Nikolai Alekseyev, one of Russia’s most prominent gay rights activists, said he had come to Mr Isakov’s aid. He said: “I am providing him full legal support like with the case appealing the bans of his public events in Kazan.
“This case is now at the Supreme Court of Tatarstan. This is real activism, not stupid bumpings of Russian vodka or boycotting Olympics.”
The news came yesterday however that a Russian teen has since filed charges against Mr Isakov after dicovering a picture of the activist’s campaign online.
The teen, Erik Fedoseyev, said he had been forced to file the complaint by his father, who reportedly hates gay people because his ex-wife left him for a woman.
While several others have also been charged and convicted across Russia, Mr Isakov’s legal team said he could be the first to be convicted and would face an enormous fine under the federal law.
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