Tag: rights-groups
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Under attack, Indonesian LGBT groups set up safehouses, live in fear
By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – LGBT activists, facing a barrage of homophobia and hate speech by Indonesian authorities, are setting up hotlines and safehouses, while “unfriending” people on social media and deleting website directories that could expose them to violence. Indonesia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights groups have been active…