It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted. At the time of their adoptn, fenrs of the rights of LGBTI+ people were at the foreont of Rsia’s human rights movement and beme one of the first targets of state persecutn. Wh the crease
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- LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
- ANTI-LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE SCE 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW RSIA
LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
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". * lgbt hate crimes in russia *
MOSCOW (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - 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”.
“(Offenrs) have bee more aggrsive and ls fearful, ” said Svetlana Zakharova, a board member wh Rsian LGBT Network, the untry’s most proment gay rights mpaign group, which has noted the same trend. Homosexualy Rsia, where the fluence of the socially nservative Orthodox Church has grown recent years, was a crimal offence until 1993 and classed as a mental illns until 1999. Rearchers said the figur are an unrtimate as many hate crim are not reported, vtigated or ‘gay propaganda’ law, which has been ed to stop gay pri march and to ta gay rights activists, is seen by many as a move by Print Vladimir Put to crack down on dissent and draw closer to the Rsian Orthodox was ranked Europe’s send least LGBT-iendly natn 2016 by ILGA-Europe, a work of European LGBT.
The SOVA Center warned that the te level of homophobic vlence uld be higher than reported bee there is no official data on homophobic attacks. Activists tie the vlence to Rsia’s 2013 law banng “gay propaganda among mors” and anti-LGBT rhetoric on state televisn.
ANTI-LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE SCE 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW RSIA
* lgbt hate crimes in russia *
(Mosw) – Rsian thori have failed their obligatn to prevent and prosecute homophobic vlence. Growg numbers of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people have been attacked and harassed across Rsia the lead-up and aftermath of the adoptn of the feral anti-LGBT “propaganda” law June 2013. LGBT people scribed beg beaten, abducted, huiated, and lled “pedophil” or “perverts, ” some s by homophobic vigilante groups and others by strangers on the subway, on the street, at nightclubs, at f, and one se, at a job terview.
“Vlence experienced by LGBT people Rsia is unmistakably motivated by homophobia, but the thori liberately ignore that the are hate crim and fail to protect victims, ” said Tanya Cooper, Rsia rearcher at Human Rights Watch. “Rsian thori should effectively prosecute homophobic vlence, and the thori should stop engagg and toleratg anti-LGBT discrimatn.
The groups of radil natnalists lure gay men and teenage boys on the pretext of a fake date, hold them agast their will, and huiate and expose them by viotapg the enunter. Victims told Human Rights Watch that assailants followed them and many s h them, while accg them of beg gay, llg them “faggots, ” and hurlg homophobic slurs at them public plac. Out of 78 victims of homophobic and transphobic vlence and harassment terviewed for the report, 22 did not report attacks agast them to the police bee they feared direct harassment om police and did not believe the police would take the attacks serly.