Yuma Yuma, 49, left Moscow for Barcelona last week with her two adult daughters and her eight-year-old granddaughter after receiving online messages threatening to kill and rape the child.
Yuma and her daughter, Alina, both have female partners and the whole family campaigns for LGBTQ+ rights in Russia, which in 2013 banned the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors” – a move decried by Western countries as state-enforced bigotry.
The family came under attack after featuring in a promotional article on the website of upmarket food retailer Vkusvill in which they talked about how they liked shopping for fair trade goods and hummus.