Russian gay attacks 'no worse than UK abuse of gingers'

Russian embassy objects to Channel 4 documentary exposing gangs who hunt and torture gay people

(Image credit: 2013 AFP)

RUSSIAN diplomats have said their country's anti-gay attacks are no worse than the UK's "abuse" of people with ginger hair.

The Russian embassy was responding to a Channel 4 documentary, Hunted, which looks at a vigilante group called Occupy Paedophilia that lures, humiliates and tortures gay people in Russia.

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