A 26-Year-Old Gay Sger "Tortured to Death" by Chechen Authori, Acrdg to Unnfirmed Report - The Stranger

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

MAN CHKY NBC NEWS, B, FAY, WEDDG, WIFE, GAY, NET WORTH, HEIGHT

Man Chky’s Short BMan Chky’s FayMan Chky’s EdutnChky’s Journalism CareerPhysil AppearanceMan Chky Wife Or Is He Gay? 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.

NEW REPORTS OF GAY SGER ABDUCTED AND MURRED CHECHNYA

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.

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

”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.

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.

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

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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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

” 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.

OUTFRONT: MEET THE CANADIAN FEARLSLY FIGHTG 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. At first, Adam nied , but when beme clear the men had read msag he had sent to others, he admted he was ed gay. 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.

GAY RSIAN SGER ZELIMKHAN BAKAEV TORTURED & KILLED IN CHECHNYA

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.