Sce 2013, Rsia's so-lled gay propaganda law has been ed to harass LGBT people, activists, and anizatns. Now, parliament is preparg an even harsher versn, and the LGBT muny is warng of loomg persecutns and vlence.
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- RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
RSIA IS REPORTEDLY INVTIGATG AN ALLEGED GAY PURGE CHECHNYA
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 * russia gay persecution *
It has been almost a sce the reprsive laws on “foreign agents” (2012) and “gay propaganda” (2013) were adopted.
Wh the crease polil reprsns me an crease homophobia propagated by the thori. In 2013, as preparatns for the “gay propaganda” law were unrway, Levada Center soclogist Aleksey Levison wrote the followg about the rults of a poll that intified a high level of homophobia Rsian society:. Homophobia always go hand hand wh fascism.
And when we speak about sexual eedom, this is a polil qutn, which is where polics ultimately we are evacuatg gay Chechens, when we say that the Chechen ernment mted crim agast humany and the Rsia feral ernment vered this up for them, are we not engaged polil activy? They save Rsian cizens – homosexual, bisexual, transgenr, but still Rsian cizens – and they sudnly end up foreign I had wanted to get rid of foreign fancg, I would probably have done that back when all this was startg. the journalist Karen Shayan, creator of the popular vio channel “Straight Talk Wh Gay People, ” which is about the life of LGBTI+ people and muni Rsia and April 22, 2022, the Mistry of Jtice add Yaroslav Sirotk, a member of the LGBT-movement Callisto om Yaroslavl and one of the ordators of a shelter Armenia for LGBTI+ refuge om Rsia, Ukrae, and Belas, to the registry of “foreign agent” media outlets.
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
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On March 10, 2021, upon the remendatn of the district prosecutor’s office, the Ostanko Court prohibed the distributn, on YouTube, of Karen Shayan’s clip “Gay Adoptn: Is this the Rsia you want? ” This clip me to beg as a dissectn of stereotyp a homophobic advertisement about “Rsia’s future” and clud tailed stori about same-sex upl raisg children.
In fact, turned out that the prosecutor’s office did not unrstand if this was gay propaganda or not, so was mistaken cg the law on gay propaganda. On June 5, 2021, the Rource Center webse for LGBTI+ people was blocked for “gay propaganda” unr a cisn of the Ordzhonikidzevsky District Court, Yekaterburg. ” Acrdg to the anizatn, letters om the FSB were ed to open the se agast Yulia Tsvetkova and the se agast Aleksey Pavlov, the admistrator of a gay datg group who was fed 50, 000 bl for “promotg non-tradnal sexual relatns.
The liv of LGBTI+ people this regn are also at high risk bee of “nversn therapy” and the practice of “drivg out evil spirs and djns, ” which is practiced not jt as a form of alternative “folk” medice, but also at quasi-medil centers, where people are “cured” of beg homosexual or transgenr. In March 2017, rmatn was received om Chechnya about mass reprsns agast Chechens spected of beg gay. In 2019, the Rsian LGBT Network helped over 140 gay Chechens immigrate to European untri and Canada.