Tag: belarus gay rights
Belarus hits out at British Embassy for flying a rainbow flag for IDAHOBIT
Belarus has hit out at the British Embassy in Minsk for flying a rainbow flag to mark an international day against anti-LGBT discrimination. As part of IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the British Embassy in the Belarusian capital flew a rainbow flag, posting a video of it on their Instagram account.… Read more »
Belarus hits out at British Embassy for flying a rainbow flag for IDAHOBIT
Belarus has hit out at the British Embassy in Minsk for flying a rainbow flag to mark an international day against anti-LGBT discrimination. As part of IDAHOBIT, the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the British Embassy in the Belarusian capital flew a rainbow flag, posting a video of it on their Instagram account.… Read more »
‘At least I know I won’t be killed’: how one gay man fled from Russia to Belarus
Peter* had set up a Skype account just to speak to PinkNews. Even though it has been six months since he left Russia to embark upon a new life in Belarus, he has to be cautious, and won’t tell me his real name. ? Since Russia’s gay propaganda law came into action in 2013, a… Read more »
LGBT People Under Attack: Raids in Belarus, Murder in Chechnya, Registration of Gays in Central Asia
Singer and Entertainer Zelim Bakaev Apparently Murdered by the Security Services of Chechnyan President’s Security Services The LGBTQI community is under assault in Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia. The most recent crackdown in the region was this past weekend’s raids of nightclubs popular with the LGBT community in Belarus, during which two clubs… Read more »
Gay clubs raided and dating app shut down in ‘alarming’ crackdown on LGBT people in Belarus
LGBT people in yet another former Soviet state are facing an “alarming” crackdown. Two clubs popular with the LGBT community in Belarus were raided this weekend, with customers harassed and detained by police. Gay-rights activists hold placards on February 14, 2011 during a rally against homophobia in Minsk. Gay rights activists said they held their… Read more »
Young Gay Activist in Belarus Targeted by KGB Faces Two Years in Jail for His Activism
KGB’s ‘dirty tricks’ – tries to get activist to become informer Gomel – A young Belarusian LGBT activist is today living in fear of imprisonment after being summoned yesterday to KGB headquarters in Biletskogo Street, Gomel. Svyatoslav Sementsov, aged 25 and co-president of the TEMA Information Center, was told that a criminal case had been… Read more »
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