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.
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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”.
ANTI-LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE SCE 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW RSIA
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 * lgbt hate crimes in russia *
“(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.