No End to Chechnya’s Vlent Anti-Gay Campaign | Human Rights Watch

Contents:

• NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN
• ANGRY CROWD OF FASCISTS ATTACK GAY ACTIVISTS RSIAN CY OF VORONEZH
• ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH
• ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH
• 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BILL PROV DIVISIVE RSIA
• CURRENT LOL TIME GAY, RSIA
• IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG
• GAY PROTTER ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG DURG OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY RSIA

NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN

REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File PhotoAt the Bugayevka crossg between Ukrae and Rsia, imag posted by a Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel on the morng of June 24 showed dozens of Rsian troops standg le, unarmed.

The Rsian LGBT Network has reported that May 2021, Chechen-speakg men abducted Ibragim Selimkhanov Mosw and forcibly returned him to Chechnya’s pal Grozny, where thori terrogated him about gay people the regn. In 2017 and 2019, Chechen thori orchtrated lethal purg of men perceived to be gay or bisexual.

In 2017, as reports of the purge surfaced, gay and bisexual men began pg Chechnya, knowg the dangers they faced. In September 2017, jt months after pg Chechnya and arrivg Canada, a Chechen gay man Toronto faced threats. Homophobic Rsians have attacked gay activists the cy of Voronezh, the attacks have taken place followg a prott agast homophobic legislatn place parts of the untry and beg nsired others.

ANGRY CROWD OF FASCISTS ATTACK GAY ACTIVISTS RSIAN CY OF VORONEZH

Activists had announced that they would picket the cy earlier the week and several hundred anti-gay opponents gathered to unter the prott. Vios seen by PkNews show bottl, snowballs and other objects beg thrown at the pro-gay protters as well as fascists performg Nazi salut outsi an Adidas store.

At least one pro-gay prottor need medil assistance acrdg to sourc. Last month, gay rights mpaigners were attacked outsi the Rsian Parliament – a day after a leadg football team was forced to ny was both homophobic and xenophobic.

The protts last month and today were agast a proposed new law banng “gay propaganda” that has been nmned by the European Parliament. Rsian urts as many as ne regns currently punish the posive portrayal of gay people, measur first adopted 2006.

ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH

Prime Mister Dmry Medvev, said he did not see any reason why homosexualy should be banned legally the untry, and that is not a big issue for many Rsians. St Petersburg passed a notor anti-gay censorship law last year. Zyelyenyy Gay, Voronezh, Rsia Monthly Weather | AccuWeather.

Zyelyenyy Gay, Voronezh, Rsia Weather Radar | AccuWeather. Image ptn, The bill triggered protts Mosw and VoronezhA bill banng "homosexual propaganda" has passed s first readg the Rsian parliament.

ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH

"I do not know any homosexuals personally, but I have seen them on TV and I saw them on 20 January the square here Voronezh, " says Yevgeny Mazep, a lawyer and lear of a mpaign group lled Special Battaln Voronezh, a cy of a ln people some 500km south of the Rsian pal, Mosw. On a eezg day January 2013, Mr Mazep helped arrange for a crowd of around 1, 500 to turn out Voronezh's Revolutn Square to show their disda for 14 monstrators - some of them gay, some straight - who opposed the law. "Homosexual propaganda aimed at mors will stroy tradnal fai, " he says.

"Gay pri paras and public meetgs are exampl of liberate and unntrolled dissematn of rmatn about homosexualy, creatg an imprsn that perversn is the norm.

" In Mr Mazep's opn, homosexuals "do not work... Views like the are what gay men like Pavel Lebev, 23 and origally om Voronezh, often have to ntend ptn, Pavel Lebev was beaten at a gay rights prottMr Lebev anised the prott Voronezh.

'GAY PROPAGANDA' BILL PROV DIVISIVE RSIA

He says he always knew he was gay - but blocked out: "I was prsed, I thought of suici.

"I remember, once, when we were watchg a gay performer on TV and my mother said he was dirty and nasty, I knew I had to keep my feelgs si. " But Mr Lebev says he do not thk all of Rsian society is homophobic.

"The only homophobia om lack of rmatn, " he argu.

CURRENT LOL TIME GAY, RSIA

A society which has paratively ltle tradn of anti-gay discrimatn (at least the private sphere) is seeg a harng of attus along what mpaigners ll "tradnalist" l. Leadg policians are happy to equate homosexualy and paedophilia the media. A gay man his 40s, he faked a marriage and moved to an isolated village six years ago, orr to adopt and brg up a son.

"He will probably not be amed to learn that his efforts to stop the Voronezh monstratn were unwtgly the start of one lol gay relatnship. Dima and Yaroslav saw each other's addrs and photos onle as a rult of a mpaign to name and shame gay activists.

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

"I am sure, like any right-thkg person, the anti-gay league will be happy for , " Dima suggts, wh a touch of Henley's reports are featured on BBC World Service news programm this week. I'm Lookg For Gay Ag 36-99 For iendship, long term, datg My Story I dont even know what to wre here. Time/GeneralWeather Weather Today/Tomorrow Hour-by-Hour Forest 14 Day Forest Yterday/Past WeatherClimate (Averag)Time Zone DST ChangSun & Moon Sun & Moon Today Sunrise & Sunset Moonrise & Moonset Moon Phas Eclips Night Sky Country: RsiaType: Populated PlaceLat/Long: 52°39'N / 41°26'ECurrency: Rsian Ruble (RUB)Languag: RsianAlso known as: Gaj, Gay, ГайTime ZoneMSK (Mosw Standard Time)UTC/GMT +3 hoursNo DSTNo Daylight Savg Time 2023AirportsLipetsk Airport, LPKAbout 128 km W of GayVoronezh Internatnal Airport, VOZAbout 177 km WSW of GayGayRsia09:0914Tuday, 5 September 2023.

A screen shot om one of a seri of homophobic vios posted on the Inter appears to show a young Rsian gay man beg forced to drk ure. Other victims were known homosexuals who were forcibly picked up off the stated goal of the vios was to "cure" the young men of their activists say such footage is a sign that homophobia Rsia is not only beg more prevalent, but also more aggrsive. Campaigners blame this on a ntroversial new law outlawg so-lled "homosexual propaganda" that was passed unanimoly by the Rsian State Duma and signed to law by Print Vladimir Put last month.

Nikolai Alekseyev, founr of Gay Pri Rsia, believ the law sends the wrong signals to society and the mds of some legimiz vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muni. "They have received signals om the hight officials the state -- the Duma, the print -- that basilly you n do whatever you want if ncerns gay people bee they are not first-class cizens; they are send-class or even third-class. "Ined, groups like the one Kamensk-Uralsky -- which belongs to a Rsia-wi work operatg unr the banner "Occupy Pedophilia" -- have so far enjoyed almost total impuny for their treatment of homosexuals.

GAY PROTTER ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG DURG OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY RSIA

But the group has sce expand s foc and is now targetg young homosexuals. Members of the group say they see homosexualy and pedophilia as morally Pedophilia was found by Maksim Martskevich, an ultranatnalist who has served a three-year prison sentence for cg ethnic hatred. Degteryov has also passed rmatn about Occupy Pedophilia's harassment of gays -- cludg photos and vios -- to the Washgton D.

The graphic imag, which were posted on the popular webse and elsewhere, have turned gay rights Rsia to a e celebre the Uned Stat. Wrer Dan Savage, founr of the It Gets Better mpaign, which bats the bullyg of gay teens, has lled for a boytt of Rsian vodka. A gay Rsian protter was taed on Saturday for unfurlg a rabow flag durg the Olympic torch relay as passed through his hometown of Voronezh, 560 north of Sochi, where the gam will beg Feb.

"Hostg the gam here ntradicts the basic prcipl of the Olympics, which is to cultivate tolerance, " Lebev said, cg growg homophobia Rsia as the ma reason for his prott. 7 to March 21, but Put later rcd the ban to allow monstratns at venu termed by the Interr Put's ments Friday were seen as further signs of tolerance when he appeared to nsir homosexualy and pedophilia to be the same thg.