mo4ch:>Yoga in jails could make inmates gay & cause riots, complaint says; nonsense, authorities respond | Mo4ch News

A conservative senator raised a few eyebrows in Russian after it emerged that she objects to yoga classes being held in prisons. The complaint reportedly implies that yoga can turn inmates gay and lead to rioting.Yoga classes were introduced in some pretrial detention facilities in Moscow as a pilot project last year. It was hailed as a big success by jail officials. But it turns out that not everyone was supportive. One Russian senator lodged a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office, requiring it to launch an official investigation into what yoga does for inmates, Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper reports.The senator, Elena Mizulina, is a controversial figure in Russian politics. She is deeply conservative and has been behind several initiatives that some progressives regard as attempts to drag the country back to the Middle Ages. She has suggested restricting the right to abortion, discouraging divorce through taxation, raising the age of consent to 18, and enshrining Orthodox…