Hate crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people Rsia have doubled five years, rearchers said on Tuday, the wake of a law banng "gay propaganda".
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- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
- LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
- POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW
- GAY ACTIVISTS BEATEN AND ARRTED RSIA
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
Receivg photos of mutilated bodi wh the warng "you're next" rattled gay rights activist Nika Toov but when he saw surveillance men outsi his home, he fled Rsia for good. * gay police russia *
The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights.
The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.
LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
Usg classic K.G.B. tactics, secury officers lured gay men to traps and tortured them to givg up the inti of others like them. * gay police russia *
Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
* gay police russia *
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Receivg photos of mutilated bodi wh the warng “you’re next” rattled gay rights activist Nika Toov but when he saw surveillance men outsi his home, he fled Rsia for threats via social media me om Pila - Rsian for “saw” - a homophobic group which has said was behd the fatal stabbg July of an LGBT+ activist whose name was among a dozen on their wily-circulated assassatn “blacklist”. Although the police did not treat the murr as a hate crime ially, they promised to vtigate whether Pila had anythg to do wh Grigoryeva’s ath after plats om lbian gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT+) rights - which tak s name om the “Saw” Amerin horror movi - is the latt threat to shake the LGBT+ muny Rsia, where homosexualy was emed a crimal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until 1999.
INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
Vlence agast gay people and hostily om the wir muny has been on the rise sce 2013 when the Kreml adopted a gay “propaganda” law as part of a drive to fend what Print Vladimir Put lled Rsia’s “tradnal valu” mpaigners say the law has helped thori crack down on activists and ntributed to a rise anti-LGBT+ hate crim as well as police reluctance to vtigate Rsian LGBT Network, which offers legal aid to gay people, said only eight out of 64 s of physil vlence agast LGBT+ people that received 2018 were vtigated by the police headquarters, Kreml spokman Dmry Pkov and human rights missner Tatyana Moskalkova did not rpond to requts for ment.
ATTACKSPila has ed s webse, Instagram, Rsia’s biggt social work VK and msagg app Telegram to ll for gay Rsians to be ported, posted a list of LGBT+ activists to be assassated, and offered sh rewards for attacks on them.
POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW
”Pila’s webse and all of s onle acunts were blocked last month after plats om activists who fear s threats are fuellg homophobia and vlence agast LGBT+ people.
GAY ACTIVISTS BEATEN AND ARRTED RSIA
“They openly ll for vlence agast certa people, but law enforcement has taken no actn whatsoever, ” said Alexanr Kondakov, a soclogist at Fland’s Universy of Helski who thored a study on anti-gay hate crim Rsia. UNPUNISHEDValy Bpalov, edor of the gay news se ParniPl, received an email on Aug. 26 stctg him to kill Maxim Lapunov - a gay man who went public about beg kidnapped and tortured Chechnya - before Oct.