LGBT-Network has exposed heo crim agast gay men Chechnya and helped evacuate people at risk to safety where they uld speak about atroci
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Reactg to the news that LGBT-Network, a proment Rsian group fendg the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) people, and five human rights lawyers om Komanda 29 have been add by the Mistry of Jtice to s list of “foreign agents”, Natalia Zviaga, Amnty Internatnal’s Mosw Office Director, said:. “LGBT-Network has exposed heo crim agast gay men Chechnya and helped evacuate people at risk to safety where they n speak about the atroci. The Rsian LGBT-Network played a ccial role the exposure of a btal “anti-gay” mpaign Chechnya durg which dozens of men were abducted, tortured and several believed to have been killed for their real or perceived sexual orientatn.
The group also provid shelter for victims of homophobic attacks om Chechnya and elsewhere around the untry, and helped wh their relotn to safer lotns wh and outsi Rsia. We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. Usg rogatory and offensive language towards the LGBTI muny, a program by the ernmental broadster Vti lled the Rsian LGBT Network a “web of gay-propaganda, ” suggtg that the Network “feeble-md youth” to reach s “propaganda” goals.
We ll on the Rsian thori to cease targetg the largt and most proment LGBTI rights group Rsia and foster a normal workg environment for activists for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, tersex and transgenr people the untry. * lgbt russia network *
We urge Rsian thori to put an end to their stctive mpaign aga leadg LGBTI rights activists the untry, repeal the “gay propaganda” law and the “foreign agents” legislatn, and enable LGBTI rights and all human rights groups, to do their work unhred. The work works to promote and protect the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people Rsia. Durg Chechnya’s horrific anti-gay purge 2017, the work led efforts to stop ab and evacuate survivors.
” The mistry also acc Sphere of spreadg “LGBT views” and workg wh people unr the age of 18, aspirg, among other thgs, to “change Rsian feral legislatn regardg the LGBT movement” – other words, the discrimatory “gay propaganda” law.
After years of hrg the work of LGBT rights activists wh the e of the “foreign agent” and “gay propaganda” laws, the thori now mand the anizatn be shut down the name of “tradnal valu. ” The urts should not be pliant wh this act of polil, homophobic censorship that blatantly vlate Rsia’s human rights obligatns.