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Contents:
- RSIA: NEW ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA
- GORSUCH DRAWS PERSONAL ATTACKS FOR BREAKG RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
- GORSUCH AND SOTOMAYOR'S CLASH GAY WEDDG OPN FOLLOWS PREV SKIRMISH PRAYG ACH LG
- THE SUPREME COURT’S BLSG OF ANTI-LGBTQ+ DISCRIMATN WILL HNT GAY COUPL
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- JTICE NEIL GORSUCH ANGRILY LLS ANTI-DISCRIMATN TRAG A “RETN PROGRAM”
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
RSIA: NEW ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN CHECHNYA
Police Chechnya have rried out a new round of unlawful tentns, beatgs, and huiatn of men they prume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch said today. The new ab e agast a backdrop of absolute impuny for the vic large-sle anti-gay purge sprg 2017. The Rsian thori should rry out an effective vtigatn to the anti-gay ab and hold those rponsible to acunt. * gorsuch anti gay *
(Mosw) – Police Chechnya have rried out a new round of unlawful tentns, beatgs, and huiatn of men they prume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch said today.
The new ab e agast a backdrop of absolute impuny for the vic large-sle anti-gay purge sprg 2017. The Rsian thori should rry out an effective vtigatn to the anti-gay ab and hold those rponsible to acunt. The men’s acunts are nsistent wh a crime report filed on January 29 wh Rsia’s chief vtigative agency by the Rsian LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) Network, a proment LGBT rights group, which stated that December and January, police Grozny, Chechnya’s pal, round up and abed 14 men.
“There wasn’t anythg remotely remblg an effective vtigatn to the anti-gay purge of 2017, when Chechen police round up and tortured dozens of men they spected of beg gay, ” said Rachel Denber, puty Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “Impuny for the 2017 anti-gay purge has sanctned a new wave of torture and huiatn Chechnya.
GORSUCH DRAWS PERSONAL ATTACKS FOR BREAKG RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
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The four men Human Rights Watch terviewed said that the police terrogated them unr torture, mandg that they intify other gay men their social circl, some s showg them photographs. Two of the men whose time unlawful tentn overlapped gave closely matchg scriptns of the tentn facily, the other mat, the daily route, the police officials, and the abe flicted on prumably gay ptiv.
The same happened to other tae police prumed to be gay.
Police officers also huiated them by probg to the tails of their liv, g homophobic slurs, exposg them as gay to other mat, and forcg them to undrs. Police also forced several of the prumed gay mat to clean the toilet and wash floors and doors along a rridor, makg clear to them and the other mat that the gay tae were given “women’s work” as a form of huiatn. Activists of the Rsian LGBT Network told Human Rights Watch that based on the rmatn the work received om var sourc and cross-checked, Chechen police taed at least 23 men between December and April bee of their prumed homosexualy.
GORSUCH AND SOTOMAYOR'S CLASH GAY WEDDG OPN FOLLOWS PREV SKIRMISH PRAYG ACH LG
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Human Rights Watch did not fd ditns that top Chechen thori sanctned the new wave of tentns, as they had wh the anti-gay purge of sprg 2017.
In November 2018, 16 participatg stat of the Organizatn for Secury and Co-Operatn Europe (OSCE) voked the anizatn’s “Mosw Mechanism” and appoted a rapportr to look to allegatns of ab Chechnya, cludg the anti-gay purge.
“Rsian thori should immediately vtigate the new wave of torture and huiatn by the Chechen police of men they believe to be gay and, fally, rry out an effective vtigatn to the purge of 2017, ” Denber said.
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Chechnya is a highly nservative majory-Mlim society and homosexualy is generally viewed as severely tatg fay honor.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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High-level Chechen officials fuel that attu by publicly ndong “honor killgs” of gay and bisexual men. He told Human Rights Watch that at least six other men were held and tortured there at the time bee of their prumed homosexualy.
The terrogators wanted Anzor to nfs to beg gay and to implite his partner. The police officers also showed him photos of other men they believed to be gay and asked whether he knew them, and other qutns. When they qutned him, like wh me, they showed him photos of other gays and asked whether he knew them….
On the third day, police brought a gay man, “Khse, ” whom Anzor knew personally, and then yet another prumably gay man, “Rtem, ” whom he did not know. On day four, police brought two more prumably gay men and forced Anzor to shave off their beards and hair.
JTICE NEIL GORSUCH ANGRILY LLS ANTI-DISCRIMATN TRAG A “RETN PROGRAM”
For the first four days, Anzor and the other prumably gay mat the large cell were not allowed to pray wh the other mat, and police would not let them eat or drk.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
On day five, police moved all the prumably gay mat to a small separate cell. Police exposed Anzor as gay, shamed him their prence, and shamed his father for allowg this “sta” on their fay honor.