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.
Contents:
- ‘I’M AAID FOR MY FUTURE’: PROPOSED LAWS THREATEN GAY LIFE RSIA
- AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
- RSIA: SUATN OF GAYS AND LBIANS
- RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW PROMPTS RISE HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE
‘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. * gay groups russia *
The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. 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. 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.
AN INTERVIEW WH A GAY, RSIAN NEO-NAZI
A Sat Petersburg urt led last week that two lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) social media groups vlated Rsia’s notor “gay propaganda” law and orred the s shuttered. * gay groups russia *
Usg rogatory and offensive language towards the LGBTI muny, a program by the ernmental broadster Vti lled the Rsian LGBT Network a “web of gay-propaganda, ” suggtg that the Network “feeble-md youth” to reach s “propaganda” goals. We urge Rsian thori to put an end to their stctive mpaign aga leadg LGBTI rights activists the untry, repeal the “gay propaganda” law and the “foreign agents” legislatn, and enable LGBTI rights and all human rights groups, to do their work unhred.
A Sat Petersburg urt led last week that two lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) social media groups vlated Rsia’s notor “gay propaganda” law and orred the s shuttered. It has been ed to jtify a crimal vtigatn of social workers who allowed a gay uple to adopt children, forcg the fay to flee to the Uned Stat.
It was a faiar rendn of Put’s bgo rd of geopolil rentments—and then he transned to the issue of gay and transgenr rights. He portrayed the war as a stggle between those seekg to reject Wtern valu and gay pri paras held as, his words, “loyalty tt[s]” to Wtern ernments.
RSIA: SUATN OF GAYS AND LBIANS
Activists say legislatn outlawg 'homosexual propaganda' has embolned rightwg groups to step up attacks on gay people * gay groups russia *
Kreml officials seized on the ia of banng “gay propaganda, ” takg an obscure law that had been gag steam regnal legislatur sce 2006 and passg at the feral level 2013. The vaguely word law prohibs any discsns of homosexualy plac or formats that may be accsible to mors, cludg the media and onle.
RSIAN ANTI-GAY LAW PROMPTS RISE HOMOPHOBIC VLENCE
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Acrdg to Rsian media monorg anizatn Medialogiya, reports about homosexualy skyrocketed om jt 11 2011 to more than 160 2013.