Kyrgyzstan’s New Anti-Gay Law Is Even Worse than Rsia’s - Open Society Foundatns

Contents:

• RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH
• KYRGYZSTAN’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW IS EVEN WORSE THAN RSIA’S
• KYRGYZSTAN: “DON’T NMN LGBT PEOPLE TO SILENCE” – UN RIGHTS EXPERTS URGE PARLIAMENT TO WHDRAW ANTI-GAY BILL
• US AND RSIA FIGHT PROXY WAR OVER GAY RIGHTS KYRGYZSTAN

RABOW RAGE: KYRGYZ RAIL AGAST LGBT COMMUNY AFTER CENTRAL ASIA'S 'FIRST' GAY-PRI MARCH

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KYRGYZSTAN’S NEW ANTI-GAY LAW IS EVEN WORSE THAN RSIA’S

Perceived Acceptance of Gay People? HistoryHomosexual activy Kyrgyzstan? Homosexual activy Kyrgyzstan is legal.

UnregnizedCountry jt got rid of the nstutnal ban on gay marriage.

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) issu Kyrgyzstan are often ed as a sremongerg tactic by policians to tat their opponents. In the n-up to the failed parliamentary electns Kyrgyzstan October 2020, a gay uple workg for an opposn party was outed as part of a smear mpaign agast .

KYRGYZSTAN: “DON’T NMN LGBT PEOPLE TO SILENCE” – UN RIGHTS EXPERTS URGE PARLIAMENT TO WHDRAW ANTI-GAY BILL

Signifint human rights issu clud credible reports of: an arbrary killg by police; a high-profile disappearance; e of torture by law enforcement and secury servic; harsh and life-threateng prison ndns; arbrary arrt; ser problems wh the pennce of the judiciary; arbrary terference wh privacy; ser rtrictns on ee exprsn and media, cludg vlence and threats of vlence agast journalists and censorship; ser rtrictns on ter eedom; terference wh eedom of associatn cludg overly rtrictive laws on the fundg and operatn of NGOs and civil society anizatns; ser acts of ernment rptn; lack of vtigatn of and acuntabily for genr-based vlence; crim volvg vlence or threats of vlence targetg members of mory groups and lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex persons; and the existence of the worst forms of child labor. Members of the LGBTQI+ muny reported that thori regularly monored chatrooms and datg s to punish and extort those who were seekg homosexual sex through onle venu.

Inmat and officials often openly victimized rcerated gay men. The report scribed tail how police patrollg parks and bars equented by gay men would threaten them wh vlence and arrt or threaten to reveal their homosexualy to their fai if they did not pay brib. Durg the year members of the LGBTQI+ muny reported that thori regularly monored chatrooms and datg s to punish and extort those who were seekg homosexual sex through onle venu.

Signifint human rights issu clud: e of torture by law enforcement and secury servic; harsh and life-threateng prison ndns; arbrary arrt; polil prisoners; problems wh the pennce of the judiciary; ser rtrictns on ee exprsn, the prs, and the ter, cludg vlence, threats of vlence, unjtified arrts or prosecutns agast journalists, censorship, and se blockg; refoulement of refuge to a untry where they would face a threat to their life or eedom; signifint acts of rptn; lack of vtigatn of and acuntabily for vlence agast women; traffickg persons; crim volvg vlence or threats of vlence targetg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex persons and impuny for genr based vlence; signifint rtrictns on workers’ eedom of associatn; and the existence of the worst forms of child labor. Members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) muny reported that thori regularly monored chatrooms and datg s an effort to punish and extort those who were seekg homosexual sex through onle venu.

US AND RSIA FIGHT PROXY WAR OVER GAY RIGHTS KYRGYZSTAN

The Labrys Public Foundatn noted the ntued practice of “rrective rape” of lbians to “cure” their homosexualy.

Durg the year members of the LGBTI muny reported that thori regularly monored chatrooms and datg s an effort to punish and extort those who were seekg homosexual sex through onle venu. In the aftermath of the March 8 Women’s March, attacked by ultranatnalists part due to mors that was a gay pri march, Member of Parliament Zhyldyz Mabekova published posts on social media llg for vlence agast LGBTI persons. Mabekova wrote, “Tired of the gays turng the holiday to a ms.

A 2019 study nducted by Kyrgyz Indigo, an LGBTI advocy anizatn, found that more than 70 percent of gay and bisexual men did not know their HIV/AIDS stat.

What many nsir the first gay-pri march ever held Central Asia has unleashed a storm of ntroversy Kyrgyzstan, wh threats of vlence agast participants, unterprotts, and fiery parliamentary bate over whether to re civil society. "The men who do not want to have children and the girls who do not want to pour not only be cursed, they mt be beaten, " Kyrgyz parliament puty Jyldyz Mabekova wrote on Facebook of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) supporters who took part the march the Kyrgyz pal, wh several of them rryg rabow flags.

Kyrgyzstan will bee a 'Gayistan. Same-sex sexual activy was crimalized Kyrgyzstan 1998, but the Kyrgyz lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny experienc route discrimatn and vlence. Emulatg Rsia’s 2013 law banng “homosexual propaganda, ” pos a threat to the human rights of the LGBT muny the untry and the regn at large.

Proponents have simultaneoly ramped up homophobic rhetoric. first, you are not the last [gay man to be taed]. me that I should stop beg gay.