'Tortured Wh Electricy': Chechen Gay Men Reunt Days of Abe

Contents:

• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
• 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
• GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS
• THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
• VIO SHOWS CHA'S GAY SHOCK THERAPY WHERE YOUNG MEN ARE PUMPED WH ELECTRICY

GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP

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 emailsGay men are beg electrocuted and stng up by their legs a new wave of torture Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights Rights Watch said terviewed four gay men who claimed they fled the nservative, predomantly Mlim regn after police allegedly beat and shocked them wh electric currents while they were stng up by their ternatnal group, headquartered New York, said the acunts ma by the men, who were allegedly taed for between three and 20 days between December 2018 and Febary 2019, were nsistent wh a plat an LGBT+ activist filed , January this year, a warng appeared on social media urgg all vulnerable men and women to flee Chechnya as was feared a new “anti-gay purge” was 2017, activists said more than 100 gay men were taed and tortured Chechnya durg a “purge”, and that some were killed. LGBT+ rights around the globeShow all 9There was no immediate ment on the report om Chechen officials, who rejected the allegatns Rights Watch said a report on Wednday that the men terviewed reported beg beaten, huiated and held for up to 20 days wh limed four said terrogators also mand rmatn about other gay men Chechnya, acrdg to the man said he had been livg elsewhere but returned to Chechnya to attend a fay weddg. Support ee-thkg journalism and attend Inpennt eventsHuman Rights Watch said thought the 2017 mistreatment of gay men was not aquately Loksha, the anisatn’s associate director for Europe and Central Asia, said: “The absolute impuny for the anti-gay purge of 2017 embolns the perpetrators.

”Homosexualy is crimalised Rsia, but animosy towards sexual mori still wily persists. "It's a feelg like they are breakg every bone of every jot your body at the same time, " he is a gay man om Chechnya, the predomantly Mlim regn southern Rsia where dozens of men spected of beg gay were reportedly taed and tortured, and at least three of them were allegedly his oral, Anzor fled Chechnya and is now hidg Mosw, fearg not only for his own life but for the safety of his relativ. Antipathy to homosexualy Rsia is wispread.

Gay rights activists' requts to hold ralli are routely rejected by officials and any ralli that do take place are often attacked by anti-gay thugs. But "this anti-gay purge, sanctned by top lol thori, is unprecented, " said Tanya Loksha, the Rsia program ordator for Human Rights Watch.

'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE

Another gay man, who spoke on ndn of anonymy for fear of reprisals, told the AP that he was also arrted Chechnya and held wh dozens of others. "Related: Rsian Police Deta Gay-Rights Activists at May Day MarchThe abe was first reported April by the pennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which said that about 100 men spected of beg gay were round up and tortured, and that at least three were killed.

Chechen officials vehemently ny not only the reported torture of gays, but sometim their very existence.

9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE

"There are no homosexuals Chechnya.

GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS

Homosexualy is a taboo nservative Chechnya, and the gay muny there was ed to leadg a double life — marryg, havg children and hidg their sexualy om even their clost fay members. The only time a gay man Chechnya uld be himself is when he met wh another gay person, typilly through social media, Anzor said. "Sometim fai turn away om such people, some fai get rid of such people, " he said of gays, a word he is visibly unfortable g.

"A monstrator holds a plard pictg Rsian print Vladimir Put wh the label 'Stop Homophobia, ' to nounce the anti-gay mpaign lnched the Rsian provce of Chechnya, durg a prott held on Place la Republique Paris on April 20, 2017. Small tails that Anzor didn't want to make public led the police to believe that he and one of his iends were gay, he were btally beaten ont of the police statn chief and taken to a shed.

"I thought if I would go there, they would be people like that there, too, " he said, lghg other gay man who spoke to the AP said that his oral began when police arrted him a crowd place, bee his number was found the phone of another gay man arrted said that he believed his ptors, drsed mouflage, were abg them one by one a bid to fd more gays.

THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT

Related: Facebook Groups Raise Over $100, 000 to Help Gay Men Chechnya"They were beatg rmatn out of , " he man, his 30s, said that when the abers lost tert one person, the torture would stop. Loksha said the methods ed agast gay men echo the ab — 's "their standard toolbox, " she last month met wh Kadyrov the Kreml and the Chechen lear dismissed the reports. We have never seen anythg like this, " said Tatyana Vnichenko, head of the Rsian LGBT Network, which is aidg about 40 gay men who have fled Chechnya recent weeks.

Two of the men have already left Rsia for another untry which is visa-ee for Rsians, and two more have jt received visas and should be leavg for Europe activists have been meetg wh foreign diplomats, pleadg that grantg a visa to gay survivors of torture uld be a matter of savg their liv. For seventeen years (1971-1989), the South Ain ernment rried out a project of ferretg out homosexuals (men and women) om the ary and subjectg them to medil torture and forced sex change operatns.

Shortly I found that I was bissexual and began to engage homosexual relatnships wh others. They forced me to regnize I was a homosexual before my parents and lleagu. The upsi down pk triangle was ed to mark a person as a homosexual via wiki mons.

VIO SHOWS CHA'S GAY SHOCK THERAPY WHERE YOUNG MEN ARE PUMPED WH ELECTRICY

Homosexualy was banned 1933 when the Nazi Party me to power. Viewed as unter to the plans to produce and propagate a German master race, cir 50, 000 dividuals were nvicted for beg homosexuals durg the reign of the Reich wh as many as 15, 000 of those dividuals beg sent to ncentratn mps. All ditors pot to the notn that homosexuals were treated worse than any other group the mps wh guards treatg them wh pecial celty.