They write: ''Twelve months ago in Russia – 20 years after the abolition of the Stalinist laws that punished homosexuality with up to five years imprisonment – the Duma passed new anti-gay laws by a majority of 436 votes to nil. We may be in post-Soviet Russia but glasnost has made precious little difference. The persecution continues.
''Nor in attitude is Russia remotely alone amongst its neighbours. Even the hero of the Polish uprising Lech Walesa is on record as saying that gays have no right to sit on the front benches in Parliament and should sit at the back – “even behind a wall .“
'They add that in many African countries prejudice and repression is increasing.
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