I found this article with video in the 'World Time' news
website. I found the video very shocking and even more upsetting. That is the
link to the story: http://world.time.com/2014/02/05/watch-russias-anti-gay-vigilantes-exposed-in-their-own-shocking-videos/
It shows how gay
man is being beaten on camera. The gang
is mentally and physically abusing the gay person, asking him to rape himself with
a bottle.
“A video of assaults
compiled by Human Rights Watch shows gay men set upon by gangs, humiliated,
punched, kicked and forced to torture themselves on tape. Activists said the
gangs, with names like “Occupy Pedophiles,” recorded the attacks and styled
themselves as defenders of Russian children. Human Rights Watch said the
attacks coincided with a surge of anti-gay rhetoric from Russian leaders and
media figures promoting an official ban on gay “propaganda.” As for the
propaganda above, Human Rights Watch met with one of its victims, 28 years old,
who said police had yet to carry out a meaningful investigation or identify any
of the suspects on tape”. (http://world.time.com/2014/02/05/watch-russias-anti-gay-vigilantes-exposed-in-their-own-shocking-videos/)
The most shocking
part of all this is that the Russian government is not fighting gangs
like that, contrarily – gangs like that stand for the government’s opinion about gay
people.
Gangs, calling
themselves defenders of the Russian children, are showing a completely wrong
way of thinking and obviously, behaving to Russian children. It is very sad
that the children are growing up, watching this kind of example. There is no
bright future for anyone, neither for straight, neither for gay people in the
country if the government is illiberal towards its own people.