Usg classic K.G.B. tactics, secury officers lured gay men to traps and tortured them to givg up the inti of others like them.
Contents:
- INSI CHECHNYA’S GULAG FOR GAY MEN
- 'ANY DAY YOU N BE TAKEN': INSI WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY CHECHNYA
- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
- RSIA VTIGAT 'GAY PURGE' CHECHNYA
INSI CHECHNYA’S GULAG FOR GAY MEN
They started accg me, ‘you’re gay, ’ ‘you were talkg to a woman about homosexualy.
“They tried to beat the rmatn out of me, askg me about other gay men I’d never spoken to and never met.
I didn’t want them to thk I was gay eher. Rsian gay rights activist Nika Saonov pos ont of a police partment as he is released after beg taed central Mosw for havg llected two ln signatur on a petn llg for a probe to a reported crackdown on Chechnya’s LGBT muny. Cooperatn, he explaed, meant workg wh the thori to meet gay men onle, lure them to an apartment wired wh surveillance equipment, and then turn them .
'ANY DAY YOU N BE TAKEN': INSI WHAT 'S LIKE TO BE GAY CHECHNYA
The worst place the world to be gay? “All those who fend human rights groups and the gays we supposedly have the Chechen Republic are foreign agents, ” Kadyrov blasted an terview wh the BBC 2018.
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
“I don’t thk the thori Chechnya try to mask that there’s open hostily to people who are gay or believed to be gay.
RSIA VTIGAT 'GAY PURGE' CHECHNYA
It’s no surprise then that there have been numero anti-gay pogroms, ” said Rachel Denber, puty director for Europe and Central Asia at Human Rights Watch. “There have been s when such allegatns [of homosexualy] were ed by the secury forc as threats or to jtify their illegal actns. Ricky-- a psdonym-- had known he was gay sce his early teens but had almost never dated.