Rsian man tortured to ath for 'beg gay'

Contents:

• VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY
• RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'
• VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA

VIOS SHOW WISPREAD ABE OF GAYS RSIA, ADVOT SAY

Human Rights Watch released a seri of vios the group says shows that the beatg and abe of gays has bee wispread. One 17-year-old om Sochi who was btalized says Rsia's new anti-gay propaganda law has been taken as enuragement by anti-gay groups. A 23-year-old man has been tortured to ath Rsia an apparent homophobic attack, vtigators said Sunday, amid growg fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise the victim's battered and naked body was found the urtyard of an apartment buildg the southern cy of Volgograd on Friday morng, said a spokwoman for regnal young man had suffered numero juri, cludg to the genalia, and had been sexually asslted wh several beer bottl.

"He was raped wh beer bottl and had his skull smashed wh a stone, " Natalia Kunskaya, a spokwoman for the Volgograd regn branch of the Invtigative Commtee, told nfirmed the attack was believed to have been a hate crime, a rare admissn om Rsian law enforcement agenci on the sensive issue of homophobia the men aged 22 and 27 have been taed nnectn wh the attack, the Mosw-based Invtigative Commtee said a statement on Saturday. Regnal vtigator Andrei Gapchenko told Echo of Mosw rad on Saturday that two men started beatg the victim after he told them he was gay. Rsia crimalised homosexualy 1993 and officially removed om the list of psychiatric disorrs homophobia remas wispread and socially acceptable, and almost no public figur have e out as gay.

RSIAN MAN TORTURED TO ATH FOR 'BEG GAY'

Several Rsian regns have outraged rights mpaigners by approvg lol laws banng "gay propaganda" among mors, legislatn which is now beg discsed at the feral parliament. Print Vladimir Put, who pris himself on his macho image, has repeatedly nied that Rsia was vlatg gay rights. But he recently warned that Rsia uld change agreements for the adoptn of Rsian children wh Wtern untri that are legalisg gay marriage, such as France.

Nikolai Alexeyev, the head of Gay Rsia, a group workg to raise the profile of gay rights, exprsed ncern that the Kreml's official rhetoric and recent legislative iativ uld be fuellg tolerance.

VIO DEPICTS HORRIFIC ATTACK ON GAY MAN RSIA

"Homophobic hysteria is beg creasgly promoted Rsia, " he told said attacks agast homosexuals are wispread the untry but are almost never vtigated as hate crim.

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