Increasg numbers of Rsians are seekg asylum the Uned Stat, acrdg to U.S. ernment data, a trend wily seen as lked to risg antigay sentiment Rsia.
Contents:
- NUMBER OF RSIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO U.S. SPIK IN WAKE OF 'ANTIGAY' LAW
- GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FORCED TO 'PROVE' THEIR SEXUALY
NUMBER OF RSIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS TO U.S. SPIK IN WAKE OF 'ANTIGAY' LAW
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Asylum applitns om Rsian natnals have jumped 15 percent for the send straight year, a rise that asylum seekers and attorneys attribute to Rsians fleeg their homeland due to fears of persecutn and antigay vlence. But applints and immigratn attorneys said the rise is almost certaly lked to an exod of Rsian gays followg Print Vladimir Put's signg of a law banng "propaganda of nontradnal sexual relatnships" last year and vlent guerrilla attacks by antigay groups Rsia.
The loosely word law was portrayed by Put and other Rsian officials as aimed at protectg children and enuragg Rsia’s birthrate, while Wtern ernments and rights groups cried as discrimatory toward gays. Gay people Rsia “are already gettg impatient, and they see that there’s no future for them there.
GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS FORCED TO 'PROVE' THEIR SEXUALY
And they leave, ” says Anatoly Kazakov, a 24-year-old gay Rsian who was granted asylum the Uned Stat earlier this month.
Immigratn Equaly, a New York-based lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy group, has seen the number of quiri receiv om Rsians seekg U.
Most of the quiri, however, e om gay Rsians unr the age of 30, many of whom fear physil attacks and huiatn by vlent antigay groups that recent years have abducted and beaten gays and posted vios of the asslts on the Inter, he says. “For that populatn, really do tend to be more a fear of vigilante groups or skheads, muny members that the ernment won’t stop or even ndon their attack of gay people, ” Morris says.