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• RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM
• RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
• THAT TIME I TOLD THE HEAD OF CHECHEN POLICE I WAS GAY. STANDG A JAIL CELL: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA
• COLUMN: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS A PUT REGIME CREATN. BRTNEY GRER IS S PRISONER
• CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'

RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM

Chechyna has reportedly opened s first prison mp where men are 'tortured or killed' bee of their sexualyPublished: 15:52, 10 Apr 2017Updated: 16:03, 10 Apr 2017GAY men are allegedly beg put to ncentratn mp-style prisons Rsia, has been claimed. 5 Chechnya's lear Ramzan Kadyrov (right), a key ally to Rsian Print Vladimir (right), has been acced of clampg down on homosexualyCred: Getty Imag.

5 Anti-gay protters try to tear a rabow flag durg an LGBT muny rally central Mosw, Rsia 2015Cred: Rters. It after Novoya Gazeta reported Chechen police had round up more than 100 men spected of beg gay - killg three of them, last week. The Chechen ernment suggted there are no gay people their untry.

RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY

5 Performers prepare to go on stage at a private gay club lled "Malevich" St. “Law enforcement and secury agency officials unr ntrol of the thls head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, have round up dozens of men on spicn of beg gay, torturg and huiatg the victims.

The allegatns me after a few eyewns and survivors said terviews wh the Rsian publitn that they were arrted and taed at one of the secret prisons Argun, a town the Chechen Republic, 100 gay men have been reportedly taed and at least three killed the past week Chechnya by the police.

The "ncentratn mps" are beg ed to force homosexuals to m that they would leave the republic, acrdg to Novaya Is Vlence Agast LGBT Communy Increasg Unr Tmp Admistratn? The officials Chechnya started torturg the homosexuals after a Rsia-based NGO for LGBT rights — — applied for a gay rights march the pal of Grozny, reports said.

THAT TIME I TOLD THE HEAD OF CHECHEN POLICE I WAS GAY. STANDG A JAIL CELL: REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

Meanwhile, Chechen’s Print Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a key ally of Rsian Print Vladimir Put, has been acced of settg up the mps to torture gay people.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

” The Chechen ernment suggted there are no gay people their untry. There is a fear among the homosexuals the regn as they are still not accepted.

Gay men Chechnya have begun letg their onle acunts or have started fleeg the regn, acrdg to the New York Tim. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.

Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. This cy is the pal of the Chechen Republic -- part of the Rsian Feratn -- and the foc of what many are llg a gay purge over the last two ab had slipped om the headl, but over the urse of a year, rights groups had told that the persecutn has ntued and that thori had waed for the backlash to subsi.

INSI THE IRON CLOSET: WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY PUT'S RSIA

The thori ny all this, and have famoly said gay people don’t even exist -- part of the reason I later thought would be valid to brg up my own sexualy. Sanctns list for human rights vlatns and ’s his police force that's been acced of torturg and imprisong gay of the most important men the untry wanted to spend the eveng wh and he seemed lighted at the attentn.

COLUMN: ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ IS A PUT REGIME CREATN. BRTNEY GRER IS S PRISONER

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A producer, John, quickly diverted attentn, tellg Aldov about his gay . But earlier, his views on gay people had been ma clear. No, they weren't roundg them up, bee Chechnya jt don't have gay people.

"For ’s pletely crazy that one of uld be gay, " Aldov said. Ask any Chechen, 'Do you have any gays your fay? "We really did not expect him to ask if one of the team were gay.

CHECHNYA GAY PURGE: FOOTAGE TAKEN SI PRISON SHOWS WHERE MEN WERE 'TAED AND TORTURED'

Bee Chechen officials totally ny the acunts of police btaly toward gay people, we did not expect to see somethg crimatg or necsarily much at all.

But I don’t thk any n pare to tellg a man who is the head of a police force acced of torturg hundreds of LGBTQ people that I’m ma our way to the prison block, and by this time, we had amassed a small followg of armed guards and other officials: a bigger dience for the general's one-man News' Jam Longman toured a prison wh Apti Aldov, the head of police Chechnya, a Rsian republic that has allegedly purged LGBTQ people over the last two Longman As we walked, I gradually got the sense that might be ok to tell him I’m gay.