{"id":2006,"date":"2015-07-05T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:11:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:11:37","slug":"kyrgyzstan-poised-to-enact-russia-style-anti-gay-propaganda-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2006","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan poised to enact Russia-style anti-gay propaganda bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The legislature of Kyrgyzstan approved an anti-gay propaganda bill modeled off of Russia&#8217;s infamous law in a second reading of the law this week. 90 legislators voted in favor of the bill with only two opposing. The bill must be voted on at a third reading, projected for October, but it is widely expected it will be adopted at that time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/kyrgyzstans-anti-gay-bill-even-worse-russias-will-become-law240615\/\">Via Gay Star News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill, similar to Russia?s own anti-gay law, will make it illegal to spread information about ?non-traditional sexual relations? in the former Soviet country.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Russia, which only fines the ?guilty?, Kyrgyzstan will punish people who ?propagate homosexual relations? by up to one year in jail.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn?t mean LGBTI people won?t be fined. The fines included in the bill are equivalent to more than half of the Kyrgyz average monthly salary.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists will also be ?held accountable? if they are found guilty of disobeying the law.<\/p>\n<p>LGBTI groups will also be banned under the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has described the draft law has one of the most ?sweeping anti-propaganda bills ever published?.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The legislature of Kyrgyzstan approved an anti-gay propaganda bill modeled off of Russia&#8217;s infamous law in a second reading of the law this week. 90 legislators voted in favor of the bill with only two opposing. The bill must be voted on at a third reading, projected for October, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[184,183,96,68],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-gay-propaganda","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}