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The Strasbourg judges said Russia had discriminated against three gay rights activists who opposed the law. It was adopted in 2013, banning promotion of homosexuality among people under 18. The law "reinforced stigma and prejudice and encouraged homophobia", the ruling said. Gay rights groups condemned the law. Under the law, private individuals deemed to be promoting "homosexual behaviour among minors" face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£67; $85), while officials risk paying 10 times that amount. Businesses and schools can be fined up to 500,000 roubles. Homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia in 1993, but anti-gay prejudice is rife. Critics see the propaganda law as part of a state campaign to marginalise LGBT activists, whose work includes dissemination of sexual health advice. The Strasbourg court said the fines imposed on three Russian gay rights activists violated Article 10 (freedom of expression) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights. According to the court, the legislation aimed at curbing promotion of homosexuality was "not clearly defined" and was implemented in an arbitrary way. It "served no legitimate public interest", the court said. 'Protecting morality' Russia's justice ministry says it will appeal, arguing that the law is aimed "exclusively at protecting the morals and health of children". MP Vitaly Milonov, of the ruling United Russia party, who introduced the original bill into the St Petersburg parliament and which formed the basis of the federal law, told BBC Russian that the court's decision was "anti-national". "It is absolutely harmful, and those who set up this decision are enemies of Europe," he said. The three activists had been found guilty for protesting against the law in 2009-2012 - outside a secondary school in Ryazan, a children's library in Archangel and an administrative building in St Petersburg. More on gay rights in Russia The court rejected the Russian government's claim that such a law was needed to protect morality. It found that the government had "failed to demonstrate how freedom of expression on LGBT issues would devalue or otherwise adversely affect actual and existing 'traditional families' or would compromise their future". Such laws, the judges said, "embodied a predisposed bias on the part of a heterosexual majority against a homosexual minority". They ordered Russia to pay each of the activists damages of between €8,000 (£7,000; $8,900) and €20,000. One of the three, Nikolai Alexeyev, hailed the ruling as a "total victory", the BBC's Sarah Rainsford reports from Moscow. He had picketed a children's library, holding a sign declaring that gay people could also be great - and listing the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein as examples.
European Court blasts Russia 'gay propaganda' law

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and vehicles were torched. Some of the worst of the violence was in the city of Bogra where police say confrontations between rival political parties left two men dead. The strike was called in protest at a war crimes trial in which several Jamaat-e-Islami leaders are charged. Correspondents say much of the country has been brought to a standstill. Many schools and businesses are shut and roads deserted. "We can confirm the death of two people. One of them belonged to Jamaat's student wing and another was a Jamaat supporter," Anwar Hossain, a police officer in Bogra told the Agence France-Presse news agency. The BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan in Dhaka says there are concerns about the country's political stability as the Jamaat-e-Islami has threatened to intensify its protests if the war crimes trial is not stopped. The party's supporters are outraged that some of their leaders have been put on trial for crimes allegedly committed during the 1971 independence war. They say the trials are politically motivated. Senior Jamaat leader Shafiqul Islam called on the government "to stop harassing our party leaders". "We also want all our leaders in prison to be released. The illegal war crimes tribunal should be scrapped," he told the BBC. Local media reported several home-made bombs exploding in Dhaka on Thursday. At Sanarpar, outside Dhaka, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at strikers who set light to a lorry, police chief Abdul Matin told AFP news agency. Four protesters were arrested, he added. The strike follows violent protests in Dhaka on Monday. Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, says more than three million people died when West Pakistan sent troops to stop it becoming independent in 1971. Last week, a special tribunal sentenced a former member of Jamaat-e-Islami to death in absentia. Eleven others, nine of them Jamaat leaders, are facing trial. Our correspondent says verdicts in the other cases are expected imminently. All the defendants deny the charges and opposition leaders accuse the government of carrying out a political vendetta. Human rights groups say the International Crimes Tribunal falls short of international standards.
Bangladesh strike over war crimes trials sparks clashes

The county's Police and Crime Commissioner Adam Simmonds launched the scheme at the national Police Strategy Forum in Hertfordshire on Thursday. He told the chief constables at the forum a Police, Crime and Justice Institute would be set up at the University of Northampton in months. It will provide police training, assessment of evidence and research. Mr Simmonds wants to put evidence gathering and assessment at the heart of police activities. Vocational training for the police will be an important role for the institute which will also "drive innovation and evidence-based practice". "I intend the institute to become a major national and international player, researching key topics and developing thinking beyond the boundaries of Northamptonshire," he added. Mr Simmonds added it would be launched within his first year in office.

Northamptonshire PCC launches academic institute for police

