Madonna should be prosecuted for violating a Russian ban on public statements supporting homosexuality, an official in the city of St Petersburg said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. pop star willfully violated city codes on “gay propaganda\u2019\u2019 when she took to the stage in the Baltic Sea port late Thursday, city council official Vitaly Milonov was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.<\/p>\n
Madonna and the concert organisers should be fined for her “illegal\u2019\u2019 statements at an event attended by people as young as 12, he said.<\/p>\n
Witnesses were available to testify against the singer, he added.<\/p>\n
Madonna stripped down to her bra during the performance to reveal the words “No Fear\u2019\u2019 painted on her back.<\/p>\n
She told the audience she would speak out in support of homosexuality and other alternative lifestyles, even if laws banned such statements.<\/p>\n
In a performance in Moscow on Tuesday, Madonna called on authorities to release the three members of local punk band Pussy Riot who were put on trial after performing songs in a cathedral that were deemed to have been insulting to President Vladimir Putin. (dpa\/NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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