Members of Uzbekistan's LGBT muny say they have been driven unrground fear of a vlent backlash after a blogger and some of his supporters were attacked last month followg social media posts llg for gay ralli at Mlim holy s.
Contents:
- ANYTHG YOU WANT - EXCEPT GAY RIGHTS, UZBEKISTAN TELLS U.N.
- GAY MAN'S MURR RAIS QUTNS OVER UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS
- ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
- GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
ANYTHG YOU WANT - EXCEPT GAY RIGHTS, UZBEKISTAN TELLS U.N.
The murr of a gay man Uzbekistan has st the spotlight on the treatment of LGBT+ people the untry and raised qutns over ernment reforms aimed at attractg foreign vtment, human rights activists have said. * uzbekistan and gay rights *
Uzbekistan – along wh Turkmenistan – are the only post-Soviet stat that prohib sexual relatns between vlence epted Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s pal, last weekend after heated social media bate around lls to reform the penal on homosexualy. The days, many of are stayg home out of fear, ” said Shhrat – not his real name – a 20-year-old gay man.
Covid-19 has exposed the equali and agili of health and polil systems and allowed thorarian regim to impose drastic curbs on rights and eedoms, g the vis as a pretext for rtrictg ee speech and stiflg and Freedom is a new Guardian reportg seri to vtigate and expose human rights ab at this cril time, and elevate the voic of people on the ontl, fightg back for themselv and their Print Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the past four years have seen Uzbekistan move towards a more polilly progrsive agenda, yet this has not extend to the untry’s LGBTQ+ ernment has recently proposed to amend the untry’s crimal to change the charge agast homosexualy om “sodomy” to a crime agast fay, moraly and children.
“LGBT people Uzbekistan were already vulnerable to harassment, threats, abe and vlence, even before the events on Sunday, given the crimalisatn of nsensual same-sex nduct and wispread homophobia, ” said Mihra Rtmann, senr central Asia rearcher at Human Rights Watch. The NGOs jotly issug this statement urge the Uzbekistani thori to live up to their ternatnal human rights obligatns by crimalizg homosexualy.
GAY MAN'S MURR RAIS QUTNS OVER UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS REFORMS
LGBT Rights Uzbekistan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * uzbekistan and gay rights *
"When I found out that my son is gay, I was thrown to a bld panic. – Mother of a young gay man llg on her fellow cizens not to be aaid of people wh same-sex relatns. Article 120 pos a nstant threat to gay and bisexual men their daily liv and mak impossible for them to lodge plats wh the thori about vlence and discrimatn to which they are subjected, for fear of revealg their sexual orientatn.
ATTACK ON BLOGGER DRIV UZBEK GAY MUNY UNRGROUND
As long as this article exists, we will have to live fear and homophob will have power over . Police do not prs charg agast all the gay and bisexual men whom they track down, but often threaten to imprison them or disclose their sexual orientatn to their fai for blackmail and fancial extortn purpos.
Police also erce LGBTI people to llaborate wh them to intify wealthier gay and bisexual men.
Homophobic mobs equently target LGBTI dividuals and those perceived to be gay, subjectg them to physil abe and extortn. On ter-based msagg servic homophobic activists dissemate the nam and ntact tails of gay and bisexual men and those perceived to be gay and ll for them to be “punished” and killed.
GAY LIFE UZBEKISTAN
Vios of such beatgs have been dissemated and there are credible reports that several gay men have been murred or severely jured by homophobic mobs recent years.