"License to Harm." Report Finds Russian Police Ignore Anti-LGBT Violence
Complete with a video exposing the unbearable violence and harassment LGBT Russians endure, an 85-page report reveals more than a year of suffering under a nationwide ban on so-called gay propaganda.A comprehensive new report from Human Rights Watch manages to summarize the impact of Russia's nationwide ban on so-called gay propaganda in one succinct phrase: "License to Harm."
That's the potent and accurate title of the 85-page report, which describes in detail the growth in the numbers of attacks on LGBT people in Russia and their severity, ranging from verbal bullying to violent physical assaults by large groups of people against LGBT individuals.
Researching "License to Harm: Violence and Harassment against LGBT people and Activists in Russia," the U.S.-based nonprofit interviewed LGBT people and activists throughout Russia.
As was the case with an earlier report by the Human Rights Campaign, the report finds official passivity and even hostility toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people who report brutal physical attacks or acts of intimidation and bullying.
http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/12/17/watch-report-finds-russian-police-ignore-anti-lgbt-violence
This is how Muther Russia takes care of it's young.
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Putin owns this.
The report paints a harrowing picture:
"Spotting Andrey, bystanders began pelting him with snowballs. He saw a group of people break free from the crowd and sprint towards the activists. Two rushed him, pushed him to the ground and began kicking him in the head, neck, and shoulders. He curled into the fetal position. When he felt the kicking stop, he tried to get up, but lost consciousness. His boyfriend, Igor, tried to revive him, and he briefly came to, thinking that he needed to open his second “stop hate” poster, but it fell out of his hands. He fell down and began convulsing."
one more thing that breaks my heart, someone is perceived as different and is blindly hated due to the never ending propaganda. it makes me as angry as hell and it must be stopped.
damn Putin to hell.
tears William
from you link, William..
The report offers Russia a roadmap to recover from its current state of institutionalized homophobia and transphobia, which is ravaging the country's LGBT community. Among 19 bullet points of recommendations for the Russian Federation government, Human Rights Watch urges officials to..
•Instruct relevant law enforcement agencies, such as the prosecutor general’s office, the Ministry of Interior, and the Investigative Committee, to gather data about homophobic and transphobic crimes, and make the gathering of such data compulsory;
•Instruct the country's prosecutors and judges to pay special attention to and use hate crime legislation when prosecuting crimes and infractions against LGBT people;
•Monitor law enforcement officials' response to crimes against LGBT people, with the goal of continuously improving the response;
•Hold accountable and discipline those law enforcement officials who are engaged in hate speech and abusive behavior;
•Encourage victims of homophobic and transphobic crimes to report to police by introducing and effectively enforcing basic confidentiality standards;
Mahalo, William 
