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Homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia gat after the fall of the Soviet Union, but gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are often subject to discrimination, persecution and worse.

The prohibition, codified in national law inhas been Sreking as a central plank of President Vladimir V. Russia ratified the European Convention on Human Rights in The court, which is charged with interpreting the treaty, which took effect inhas often castigated the country.

The ruling is binding, but as with much else in international law, there is not a strong hhe mechanism. Russia vowed to file an appeal. They were not discriminatory.

In addition, Sreking A. This year, it emerged that gay men had been detained and tortured in the Chechnya region of Russia, in what observers likened to a pogrom.

The three activists who sued — Nikolai V. Bayev, 42; Aleksei A.

Kiselev, 33; and Nikolai A. Alekseyev, 39 — staged demonstrations from to in the cities of Ryazan, Arkhangelsk and St. Petersburg, carrying banners stating that homosexuality is natural, not a perversion.

They were arrested and fined. The judges ruled 6 to 1 against Russia.

The judge who dissented, Dmitry Dedov, is Russian. The ruling focused on two doctrines: The vagueness of some provisions made their potential scope unlimited, the court ruled.

For example, it found, one of the men had been fined for demonstrating in front of the headquarters of the St. In his dissent, Judge Dedov said his colleagues had failed to properly balance conflicting rights.

Judge Dedov also defended the ban as a matter of policy: He cited statistics reporting that 50, children a year are sexually abused in Russia, most by men. Follow Sewell Chan on Twitter sewellchan.

Ivan Nechepurenko contributed reporting from Moscow. A version of this article appears in soxial onon Page A7 of the New York edition with the headline: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya. Open in the app.