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Edward Snowden: Russia’s treatment of gays is ‘fundamentally wrong’
US whistleblower Edward Snowden has said Russia’s treatment of LGBTI people is ‘fundamentally wrong.’
The fugitive, who has been living in an undisclosed location in the country since he was granted asylum there in June 2013, made the comment while accepting the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression’s Bjornson prize by videophone.
Snowden described the country’s crackdown on internet freedom as a ‘mistake in policy.’
‘It’s wrong in Russia, and it would be wrong anywhere,’ the Guardian quoted him as saying.
‘I’ve been quite critical of [it] in the past and I’ll continue to be in the future, because this drive that we see in the Russian government to control more and more the internet, to control more and more what people are seeing, even parts of personal lives, deciding what is the appropriate or inappropriate way for people to express their love for one another… [is] fundamentally wrong.’
Russia passed a gay ‘propaganda’ law in 2013, banning the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality to minors.
The founder of a LGBTI youth website was fined under the law last month.
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Darren Wee
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