Chechen Pop Sger Feared Kidnapped, Victim of 'Anti-Gay Purge'

Contents:

• MAN CHKY NBC NEWS, B, FAY, WEDDG, WIFE, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT
• NEW REPORTS OF GAY SGER ABDUCTED AND MURRED CHECHNYA
• POP STAR 'FEARED AD' CHECHNYA'S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP WARNS
• CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
• CHECHEN POP SGER FEARED KIDNAPPED, VICTIM OF 'ANTI-GAY PURGE'
• GAY SGER ZELIM BAKAEV WENT MISSG A YEAR AGO CHECHNYA—WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM REMAS A MYSTERY
• A 26-YEAR-OLD GAY SGER "TORTURED TO DEATH" BY CHECHEN AUTHORI, ACRDG TO UNNFIRMED REPORT
• OUTFRONT: MEET THE CANADIAN FEARLSLY FIGHTG CHECHNYA'S 'GAY PURGE'
• GAY RSIAN SGER ZELIMKHAN BAKAEV TORTURED & KILLED IN CHECHNYA

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This week, Maxim Lapunov beme the first gay man to e forward to tail his experienc of abe and torture at the hands of Chechen thori what have bee known as Chechnya’s ‘gay ncentratn mps’. Lapunov said, "When I would fall, they would give me a break and then force me to stand up and ntue for several more rounds, " addg, "Day after day, they were tellg me how precisely they want to kill me, " Lapunov was released after signg a statement clarg that he would never speak of his experienc, unr threats that he would be hunted down and killed if he were to do of Chechnya’s anti-gay pogroms broke April 2017, tailg that at least 100 gay men had been arrted and three killed the Rsian regn. In an effort to obta the nam of more gay men, the officials had nfisted his phone and then targeted his ntacts.

Throughout April and May 2017, other reports further revealed that gay men Chechnya were beg murred at the hands of their own fay members, what was scribed as state-enuraged honor an anonymo terview nducted wh France24, one survivor said, “They tell the parents to kill their child. A reprentative for the newspaper said, “Wh regards to the sexual orientatn of those killed, as far as we know there are homosexual people this list, but not all of them at all. ”The webse Pknews reported that two mps based the villag of Argun and Tsotsi-Yurt were ially intified, but further vtigatns revealed a further four jails for gay early Augt, iends and fay of popular Chechen sger, Zelim Bakaev, 26, had spoken of his disappearance durg the sger’s vis home to the Chechen pal of Grozny to attend his sister’s weddg.

NEW REPORTS OF GAY SGER ABDUCTED AND MURRED CHECHNYA

There were other facets of the vio that had appeared to suggt that the footage had been taken Chechnya, notably the furnure the room were manufactured by var Rsian pani that shipped their products to Chechnya wh low likelihood that they would end up elsewhere Europe, as well as the appearance of the Drive Me brand of Rsian energy drk on the table that is not sold week Igor Kocketkov of the Rsian LGBT Network ma a statement about Bakaev’s disappearance, sayg, “At the end of Augt, we received nfirmatn of our earlier prumptn that Bakaev was taed by Chechen thori due to spicn of homosexualy. ” As of yet, other than timatns garnered om the guard ttimoni of survivors and targets, there are no firm statistics available on the number of men beg held as a rult of Chechen anti-gay pogroms or an accurate figure of how many murrs have rulted om the ntued existence of the adly torture mps. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsA leadg Rsian human rights group said has “ser fears” a gay Chechen pop star has been killed a crackdown on the homosexual muny.

Followg the 26-year-old sger’s disappearance, human rights groups and some members of the LGBT muny alleged Mr Bakayev’s disappearance was lked to an anti-gay mpaign Chechnya, wh some suggtg he had been abducted by police. Durg a prs nference Mosw earlier this month, founr of the Rsian LGBT Network Igor Kochetkov also ma a direct lk between Mr Bakayev’s disappearance and revelatns of the tentn and torture of Chechen gay men earlier this year. The group’s advocy unsel Shawn Gaylord said: “Over the past two months, the ternatnal muny hoped that mours of Zelim’s ath were only that.

POP STAR 'FEARED AD' CHECHNYA'S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP WARNS

Allegatns of arbrary tentn, torture, disappearanc and killgs of hundreds of homosexuals Chechnya ed ternatnal outrage earlier this year. On Monday, Maxim Lapunov, om Omsk, Siberia, spoke out about his oral when he was ught up the whirlwd of Chechnya’s ”gay purge” durg which he claimed beg arrted, thrown to a blood-soaked cellar and repeatedly beaten durg 12 days. April 1, 2021, marks four years sce the world at large was first ma aware of Chechnya’s gay purge — atroci mted agast LGBTQ people wh the Rsian republic’s borrs, a horrific, ongog stratagem of abductn, tament, torture and murr.

CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

Gradually rebed by Wtern ernments over the years as first-hand acunts began to emerge, Chechnya’s gay purge has largely been ignored — if not supported through omissn — by Rsian Print Vladimir Put and his ernment. In return, the Kreml has fund Kadyrov’s police state and mostly turns a bld eye to human rights ab, cludg Chechnya’s ongog gay purge. Abhorrent extrajudicial actns agast LGBTQ people did not first sprg up April of 2017; ed, lol thori excelled at blackmailg the republic’s gay muny for years prr.

Before we get to the below prehensive timele of Chechnya’s gay purge, first a note on how people like you n help. After weeks of verifitn, the Rsian-language newspaper shar heart-wrenchg news out of Rsia’s North Cs: More than 100 people have been taed Chechnya, all of whom are gay or spected to be.

Some of the taed were eventually released and able to flee Chechnya, while others were released only upon handg over about other gay iends and acquatanc.

CHECHEN POP SGER FEARED KIDNAPPED, VICTIM OF 'ANTI-GAY PURGE'

” Lol thori tell a news agency, “You nnot arrt or reprs people who jt don’t exist the republic, ” suggtg that Chechnya has no gay cizens, and that if did, those cizens’ relativ would have executed them unr honor killg ctoms.

In a mosque loted the cy of Grozny, relig lears meet and suggt a massacre of journalists for reportg on Chechnya’s gay purge. Amnty Internatnal lnch an “urgent actn” mpaign askg dividuals to wre to Rsian thori “urgg them to rry out prompt, effective and thorough vtigatns to the reports of abductns and killgs of men believed to be gay Chechnya and to ensure that anyone found guilty or plic such crim will be brought to jtice acrdance wh the laws of the Rsian Feratn. One of the victims of Chechnya’s gay purge, an aforementned TV journalist, has all footage of his past reportg erased by the Chechen State TV and Rad Company he worked for — “as if he simply did not exist.

It’s now believed that up to several hundred gay men have been round up, some killed, Chechnya, and The Guardian publish this story followg terviews wh gay men who claim they were tortured secret tentn facili.

GAY SGER ZELIM BAKAEV WENT MISSG A YEAR AGO CHECHNYA—WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM REMAS A MYSTERY

At first, Adam nied , but when beme clear the men had read msag he had sent to others, he admted he was ed gay.

A 26-YEAR-OLD GAY SGER "TORTURED TO DEATH" BY CHECHEN AUTHORI, ACRDG TO UNNFIRMED REPORT

The newspaper urg the Rsian ernment to rpond to lls for a jihad agast journalists reportg on Chechnya’s gay purge, cg the April 3 meetg of 15, 000 at the central mosque of Grozny. Lra Weste, print of the Colombian-based NGO Gpo Acción y Apoyo a Personas Trans tweets a satelle picture that reportedly shows one lotn where gay men are beg held Chechnya’s gay purge. Chechen Print Ramzan Kadyrov tegoriz the ternatnal outcry over Chechnya’s gay purge as an attempt to “blacken our society, liftyle, tradns and ctoms.

” In an terview wh a Rsian state news agency, he doubl down on the notn that Chechnya has no gay men wh s borrs. OutRight Actn Internatnal urg three oil pani wh large vtments Rsian oil and gas — Brish Petrolm, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell — to publicly nmn Chechnya’s gay purge. “This is one of the worst homophobic mpaigns the world has ever seen, ” says OutRight Actn Internatnal Executive Director Jsi Stern.

As part of a special vtigatn, CNN releas terviews wh multiple victims of Chechnya’s gay purge (their inti ncealed), who discs the form their torture took and the “ath sentence” that has always rulted om beg openly gay the Southern Rsian republic. At a meetg wh Put, the Chechen print scrib articl about Chechnya’s gay purge as “provotive” and sists claims that gay men are beg taed are unte.

OUTFRONT: MEET THE CANADIAN FEARLSLY FIGHTG CHECHNYA'S 'GAY PURGE'

Speakg to Gay Star News, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokperson the UK nfirms that Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, has threatened to rid the area of homosexualy “by Ramadan, ” which falls on May 26.

Other ci see anized protts agast Chechnya’s gay purge as well, cludg London (April 12), Amsterdam (April 19), Toronto (April 22) and Manchter (April 23). Novaya Gazeta reports there are six known secret prisons for gays Chechnya, one of which is loted the town of Argun and another is the village of Tsotsi-Yurt.

GAY RSIAN SGER ZELIMKHAN BAKAEV TORTURED & KILLED IN CHECHNYA

The AP publish a report which they terviewed two gay men (one his 30s, one his 40s) a safe hoe provid by LGBT activists.

In this same terview wh the AP, Tatyana Vnichenko, head of the Rsian LGBT Network, assistg around 40 gay men lookg to flee Chechnya, says the U.

Durg a public prs nference wh Vladimir Put, German Chancellor Angela Merkel be the only world lear th far to speak out amid the ongog reports of Chechnya’s gay purge. She lls on Put to “e his fluence to guarantee the rights of mori” after hearg “negative reports on the treatment of homosexuals, particularly Chechnya. Followg reports of a 17-year-old man thrown off a nth floor balny by his own uncle for beg gay, Hor announc the lnch of s “Know Your Rights” mpaign, an tnal effort to help make gay men and travelers aware of their rights different untri around the world.