Gay men who have fled Chechnya are revealg horrific tails of the prisons the untry where prisoners are tortured and sometim murred.
Contents:
- 'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
- 9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
- GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
- THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
- GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS
'TORTURED WH ELECTRICY': CHECHEN GAY MEN REUNT DAYS OF ABE
Chechen officials vehemently ny not only the reported torture of gays, but sometim their very existence. * electro torture gay *
"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.
9 BARBARIC AND BTAL EXPERIMENTS AND TTS GOVERNMENTS PERFORMED ON GAY PEOPLE
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. "There are no homosexuals Chechnya. 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.
GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
"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.
THIS GAY MAN WAS GIVEN REPEATED ELECTRIC SHOCKS BY BRISH DOCTORS TO MAKE HIM STRAIGHT
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. 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.
GAY MEN SHARE HORRIFIC DETAILS OF ELECTRIC SHOCK TORTURE SECRET CHECHNYA PRISONS
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.