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Austria puts aside millions for gay people who faced prosecution

People investigated under discriminatory laws to get €500, while those convicted will get €3,000 or more, says justice minister

Austria has set aside millions of euros to compensate thousands of gay people who until two decades ago faced prosecution, its justice minister has said.

The country decriminalised homosexuality in 1971 but certain discriminatory provisions remained in force until the early 2000s.

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