Anti-LGBTQIA measures have been stepped up in Russia.
A strategy by Moscow to further monitor and repress the LGBTQIA community by labelling its members as “extremists”.
Amnesty International has said that the Moscow government is disproportionately using anti-terrorism and anti-extremism laws as a weapon to stifle dissent and control public opinion. And all this thanks to the vague wording of the legal texts.
Just consider that since 2013, 3,738 people have been convicted of crimes related to terrorism, while the “Register of Terrorists and Extremists” of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Financial Monitoring currently contains 13,647 people, of whom 11,286 are defined as “terrorists”.
People on the Terrorist and Extremist Register have their bank accounts frozen and have a monthly spending limit of just 10,000 roubles.
And Russia’s LGBTQIA community is particularly vulnerable to these repressive measures, which only serve to tighten the noose around LGBTQIA people’s necks.
In conclusion, the repression of the LGBTQIA community is a flagrant violation of human rights and an attempt to silence dissenting voices through discrimination and intimidation.
It is essential that the international community continues to denounce these practices so that the rights of all individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, can be protected.