Human Rights Watch releas vio showg cints of anti-gay vlence Rsia

Contents:

• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RELEAS VIO SHOWG CINTS OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE RSIA
• GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO
• GAY MAN IN RSIA APPARENTLY RAPED BY VIGILANT ON VIO
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM
• WATCH: RSIA’S ANTI-GAY VIGILANT EXPOSED THEIR OWN SHOCKG VIOS
• GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
• IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG
• GAY RSIA

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RELEAS VIO SHOWG CINTS OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE RSIA

Wh a day of s publitn, the Natnal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) announced would open an vtigatn to “this ugly se” prsure om the regnal ernor, the rector of the Ulyanovsk Instute of Civil Aviatn, Sergei Krasnov, likened the ts’ suatn to Psy such an “unfivable” disgrace to veterans, he said, they uld be expelled, perhaps, even, tried unr Rsia’s ntroversial anti-homosexual laws. Wh the ey of the world about to turn to the Wter Olympics Sochi, a human rights group has released a new disturbg vio highlightg vlence agast gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual people unr Rsia's anti-gay laws that went to effect last year. "The vio shows gay men Rsia beg punched, kicked and beaten by attackers who filmed and dissemated the footage, which was then piled by the human rights victims, the group add, "were aaid to go to the police to report vlence, fearg further harassment and believg the police would not bother to pursue their attackers.

"Last June, the Rsian Parliament passed a bill makg homosexual propaganda illegal, banng the discsn and promotn of "nontradnal sexual relatnships to mors.

"We know mt surely ncern you, as eply ncerns all of , that sce beg selected as the host untry for the Wter Olympics, the Rsian ernment has tensified s asslt on the human rights of s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) cizens, " the letter said, ntug:"Rsian cizens and foreigners are banned by law om publicly supportg equaly for LGBT people. LGBT Rsians have effectively been phed to the margs of society and are now forced to live wh daily threats to their safety a untry that is promotg state-sanctned homophobia and transphobia. "The letter — distributed to CEOs at pani cludg Co Cola, General Electric, McDonald’s, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and Visa — urged sponsors to speak out agast Rsia’s anti-gay 'propaganda' law and ask the Internatnal Olympic Commtee (IOC) "to unrtake systemic reforms to monor and prevent human rights ab future host untri.

GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO

"Nobody is more offend than me by some of the anti-gay and lbian legislatn that you've been seeg Rsia, " Print Barack Obama said last summer. "And one of the thgs I'm really lookg forward to is maybe some gay and lbian athlet brgg home the gold or silver or bronze. This summer, the beatg of a transgenr woman was also ught on tape and wily spread throughout the are not the first tensely homophobic cints that Rsia has seen recent tim, but homophobic vlence has creased terribly sce new laws banng "homosexual propaganda" passed June.

GAY MAN IN RSIA APPARENTLY RAPED BY VIGILANT ON VIO

LGBT groups say that this new legislatn has bolstered anti-gay activy, which clus "ambhg" spected homosexuals through social media trickery and then submtg them to rerd huiatn and if the acts are not chillg enough, seems as though the vios and clips are released to a vividly supportive dience, often appldg the attacks. If they are not taed durg protts, mt be bee they are simply too sred to do anythg about the lack of liberty and jtice Rsia that acpany stipulatns the "homosexual propaganda law" which now f 4, 000 to 5, 000 bl (120-150 USD) per dividual and 800, 000-1, 000, 000 bl (24, 000-30, 000 USD) per registered anizatn for even mentng gay a very ser social movement, emerg Rsia will ntue to rank wh other plorably anti-gay stat (i.

While Rsia fds self at a rare moment of ternatnal pnce, the ternatnal muny nnot turn a bld eye to the plight of Rsia's LGBT fight homophobia here. Many Rsian media outlets were aaid to ver the vio bee of Rsia's law banng displays of "gay propaganda, " Primachenko said.

In a 2020 ad promotg the nstutnal vote, a gay uple is shown enuragg their newly adopted son to wear a drs. A vio pictg a man beg raped wh a bottle has surfaced on social media, what appears to be the latt asslt on Rsia's beleaguered homosexual muny. The seri of short clips, makg the rounds on the mobile-phone applitn WhatsApp show the victim, who seems to be an ethnic Uzbek, beg bullied to nfsg that he is gay.

INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

The Uzbek-speakg source, speakg om Rsia, nfirms that the victim was targeted bee he is gay.

He says the man was first taed by a group of Rsian antigay vigilant who lured him to a fake date through a social-workg webse. "Rsian guys ught him and lled to say they had a gay Uzbek, " the self-proclaimed thor of the vio said.

ANTI-GAY VIRAL VIO STIRS OUTRAGE AHEAD OF RSIAN REFERENDUM

But he nfsed that he was gay. Rampant Homophobia. The asslt, however, tak place agast the backdrop of an aggrsive mpaign directed at members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny Rsia.

Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy 1993, homophobia is still rampant the untry and attempts to hold Gay Pri paras Mosw have been btally cshed by both police and antigay activists.

A new bill propos to take children away om homosexual parents. “There’s your mother, ” the father says, noddg to another actor – a riture of a flamboyantly gay man – wag a r outsi. Alexanr Filimonenko, the actor who played the gay man, apologized an Instagram post after the backlash.

WATCH: RSIA’S ANTI-GAY VIGILANT EXPOSED THEIR OWN SHOCKG VIOS

Nikolay Stolyarch, the head of Patrt Media Group, the parent pany of RIA FAN, acknowledged the ntroversy, but said the vio was le wh Rsian laws passed unr Put’s le that have outlawed so-lled “homosexual propaganda, ” measur that have drawn wispread ternatnal nmnatn. “I agree that the topic is ambiguo, but the pot of this vio is not mpaigng agast homosexuals, as some reprentativ of the opposn are tryg to pat .

The timg of the anti-gay vio, which has drawn over 76, 000 views on YouTube, seems clear. ” Captured for public torture, he has the ep misfortune of beg a gay man a untry where homophobia has taken a vlent turn.

GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW

“By turng a bld eye to hateful homophobic rhetoric and vlence, Rsian thori are sendg a dangero msage as the world is about to arrive on s doorstep for the Olympics that there is nothg wrong wh attacks on gay people, ” said Tanya Cooper, a Rsia rearcher at Human Rights Watch. Members of Occupy Pedophilia have attacked gay people Rsian towns unr the guise of fightg pedophilia and protectg children sce 2012.

” If is a social movement, Occupy Pedophilia is an unabashedly crimal one, lurg gay men via Inter to be verbally abed and physilly asslted by a herd of thugs, who viotape the orals. Rsian thori’ failure to act, upled wh threats of exile and officials’ homophobic ments blamg gay people for the natn’s low birth rate, have exposed LGBT people to vlence and ma them more vulnerable, advot say.

IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG

At the same time, has embolned June, the Rsian ernment passed a bill stigmatizg the gay muny, prohibg tg children on homosexualy, and prohibg “propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatns.

GAY RSIA

” That has been terpreted to clu any public exprsn of Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed the bill to law, he has also said gay people were wele Sochi and would be “fortable” there but asked them “to leave children peace. ” The implitn that gays are somehow more prone to scg kids, the face of all evince to the ntrary, might expla Occupy Pedophilia's choice of a name. “As Rsia hosts the Olympics this atmosphere of homophobic hatred, the ernment needs to take urgent measur to support the rights of LGBT people and protect them.