Analytics and Interview
On 16 January 2015 late in the evening the website of the Ministry of Justice published a statement that the NGO Committee Against Torture had been added to the register of non-profit organizations designated as ‘foreign agents’.
Earlier this year, the correspondent of Youth Human Rights Movement from Germany Jakob Stürmann interviewed Konstantin Baranov, member of the Coordination Council of the International Youth Human Rights Movement. They discussed so called “law against homosexual propaganda” and the overall situation of LGBT in Russia.
Search on site
CIVIL NEWS
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority It is time to sit back and reflect.
OUR BUTTON
Declaration of the 14th ILGA-Europe conference with regard to attack on LGBT activists in Russia
On October 30, in Tomsk three activists of the local branch of the Russian LGBT Network were attacked while disctributing leaflets to people in the streets with the call or tolerance toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. They were attacked by a group of nine people in the masks. In the results of harsh beating all three activists were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. We draw a particular attention to the fact that the attack took place very close to the police station, but the police officers did not interfere.
This attack is is an ugly act of violence against human rights defenders that cannot be excused. We express our solidarity with the LGBT activists in Tomsk and also with everyone who is under the risk standing for the society free from prejudices and and injustice in Russia.
ILGA-Europe addresses the Russian authorities to publicly condemn agressive homophobia and transphobia. We demand immediate and just investigation of the attack on the LGBT activsts and adoption of efficent measures for guaranteeing safety of human rights defenders.
The Hague, October 31, 2010
About case: LGBT rights defenders attacked in Tomsk, Russia