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Contents:
- OCCUPY PAEDOPHILIA: FILMED ATTACKS ON LGBT COMMUNY BY ULTRA-NATNALISTS SURGE WH ANTI-GAY LAW
- RSIA'S NEW NEO-NAZI SPORT: TERRORIZG GAY YOUTH ONLE
OCCUPY PAEDOPHILIA: FILMED ATTACKS ON LGBT COMMUNY BY ULTRA-NATNALISTS SURGE WH ANTI-GAY LAW
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. * vk gay 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. 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.
RSIA'S NEW NEO-NAZI SPORT: TERRORIZG GAY YOUTH ONLE
Put's law crackg down on 'gay propaganda' has sparked Rsian homophob to act wh impuny, say activists. * vk gay russia *
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. ”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.
“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. The harassment of gay people Rsia has surged followg the approval of a law banng "homosexual propaganda" June thanks to the activy of anised vigilant' movements such as Occupy Gerontophilia and Occupy legislatn, which prcrib heavy f for anyone providg rmatn about homosexualy to people unr 18, has enuraged bigots to e social media such as VKontakte to lure gay people to a trap and huiate them on mera - wh beatgs, torture and claim their purpose is to name, shame and punish spected paedophil but activists said was jt an exce to dulge their homophobia.