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schema:articleBody	An activist calling for the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Uzbekistan suffered a broken leg and head injuries during a violent attack at the weekend and was hospitalised, police said on Monday. Sexual relations between two men are prohibited by law in Uzbekistan, a hangover from the Soviet Union. Miraziz Bozorov, an Uzbek gay rights activist and critic of Islamic conservatives and the government, sustained a traumatic head injury and a fracture in his left leg during an attack outside his home late Sunday, police said. Attackers "fled the scene of the crime in an unknown direction", police said in a statement, while also describing Bozorov as a provocateur. Also on Sunday, several dozen people attended an anti-gay protest and a dozen were detained by police on hooliganism charges. The rally is believed to have been a response to Bozorov's call for a repeal of the law prohibiting sexual relations between men. The UK ambassador in the Central Asian country, Tim Torlot, said on Twitter that there was "no excuse" for the attack on Bozorov. Torlot said it was "sad to see so much hatred" at the protest, which saw several dozen men march through central Tashkent yelling "God is great!" with some appearing to attack young people standing in a square. The interior ministry released a video of several detained men expressing regret for their actions. But the video was also critical of Bozorov, who it said had "demonstrated his depraved behaviour, (and) deliberate disregard for the rules of behaviour in society" while showing footage and images from his Telegram channel. Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said that a repeal of the law criminalising homosexuality is not on the agenda, despite recent political reforms such as the rollback of forced labour in the lucrative cotton sector. His hardline predecessor and mentor Islam Karimov once famously said that he found homosexuality a "vulgar" form of mental illness. Mirziyoyev has continued to honour Karimov's memory since coming to power after his death from a stroke in 2016, while trimming some of his authoritarian policies. sk-cr/as/kjl
schema:headline	Gay rights activist assaulted in Uzbekistan
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schema:datePublished	2021-03-29 (xsd:date)
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