A draft bill before Rsia’s parliament would signifintly affect the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
Contents:
- WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
- RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
- RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
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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.
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. And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford.
‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE 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. * anti gay rights in russia *
Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch. In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. Rsian thori should vtigate allegatns of a new wave of anti-lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persecutn Chechnya and take steps to protect rights fenrs and journalists who expose ab there, Human Rights Watch said today.
WHY RSIA IS SO ANTI-GAY
Close to 75 percent of Rsians say beg gay is morally unacceptable, a new survey fds. * anti gay rights in russia *
The allegatns of a new round of homophobic persecutn and the threats agast Kochetkov e after Chechen thori had rried out a vic large-sle anti-gay purge sprg 2017, durg which lol police round up and tortured around 100 men they spected of beg gay.
In November 2018, 16 participatg stat of the Organizatn for Secury and Co-Operatn Europe (OSCE) voked the anizatn’s “Mosw Mechanism, ” and appoted a rapportr to look to allegatns of ab Chechnya, cludg the anti-gay purge. Rsia should effectively vtigate the allegatns of new ab agast LGBT people by Chechen thori, liver acuntabily for the 2017 anti-gay purge, and ensure the safety of Kochetkov, his lleagu at Rsian LGBT Network, and other human rights fenrs and journalists who work at great personal risk to stop ab Chechnya.
RSIA NOT ONLY COUNTRY WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
“Agast the backdrop of this stark impuny for the horrific anti-gay purge of 2017, reports of a new wave of persecutn of LGBT people Chechnya are extremely disturbg, pecially the wake of the damng OSCE report, but not surprisg at all, ” Reid said. (New York) – Rsia’s anti-gay “propaganda” law has served as a tool for anti-gay discrimatn the year sce entered to force, even though Rsian thori have fed only four people for vlatg . The law’s adoptn also cid wh the spread of vlence and harassment of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and LGBT rights activists and a rise homophobic hate speech by some Rsian officials and public figur, Human Rights Watch rearch found.
On December 3, 2013, a urt the northern Rsian cy of Arkhangelsk found that two Rsian LGBT rights activists, Nikolai Alexeyev and Yaroslav Yevthenko, had vlated the feral anti-LGBT “propaganda” law bee they stood next to a children’s library Arkhangelsk wh a sign that said, “There’s no such thg as gay propaganda, you don’t bee gay, you’re born gay. A Kazan urt fed Isakov 4, 000 bl ($120) bee on June 30, 2013, he held a one-mute picket on the cy’s central square, holdg a plard that said, “Beg gay and lovg gays is normal; beatg gays and killg gays is crimal.
RSIA'S ANTI-GAY LAW, SPELLED OUT PLA ENGLISH
” He said his brief prott had nothg to do wh propaganda: “I wanted to brg attentn to the vlence agast LGBT people by natnalist groups who equal gays wh pedophil, and to killgs of [gay] people.
In September 2013, the newspaper had published an terview wh a gay teacher om Khabarovsk, Aleksanr Ermoshk, which he was quoted as sayg, “My own existence prov that homosexualy is normal. Petersburg regnal law banng propaganda for homosexualy, had filed a plat claimg that Deti-404’s activi might nstute propaganda for “nontradnal sexual relatnships” vlatn of the feral law.