US EditionBelarusian parliament passes a bill to crack down on LGBTQ+ rights
The measure imposes fines, community labor and up to 15 days in jail, and awaits President Alexander Lukashenko’s expected signature.
- On Thursday, the Belarus parliament passed a bill to punish those promoting LGBTQ+ causes, sending the legislation to President Alexander Lukashenko for his expected signature.
- Lukashenko, who has ruled the nation of 9.5 million for over three decades, has long publicly mocked homosexuality, reflecting his administration's broader crackdown on human rights.
- The bill makes the "propaganda of homosexual relations, gender charge, refusal to have children and pedophilia" punishable by fines, community labor, and 15-day arrest.
- Alisa Sarmant, head of TG House, a Belarusian transgender rights group, said the law provides "legal grounds for repressions," with the group documenting at least 12 cases of persecution over the past three months.
- Fearing that Belarus is "copying Russia's sad experience," Sarmant warned the nation's security agency uses blackmail to force cooperation, creating unbearable conditions for LGBTQ+ people.
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The Associated Press reports: The Belarus parliament passed a bill Thursday to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of restrictions set up in neighboring ally Russia. The upper house gave final approval for the legislation following its passage last month by the lower house, and it goes next to authoritarian President …
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Belarusian parliament passes a bill to crack down on LGBTQ+ rights
The Belarus parliament has passed a bill to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of similar laws that have been set up in neighboring ally Russia.
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About this Belarusian meeting, the deputies grabbed the document “On the change of codes from the nutrition of administrative law”, which adds to the Code of Belarus on Administrative Law the destruction of new articles and 43 new categories of administrative law. Also, 73 changes were made to all the following categories. We received article 19.16 “Propaganda of homosexual women, article changes, lack of identity, pedophilia”, as well as fines …
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