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

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

"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.

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

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. 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. "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.

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

All ditors pot to the notn that homosexuals were treated worse than any other group the mps wh guards treatg them wh pecial celty. Sixty percent of homosexuals would die the mps where they were also shunned by Jews, members of the telligensia, Roma, and other persecuted mory groups. What’s more they were also the subjects of repeated Nazi experimentatn rangg om stratn to experiments tend to lote the of homosexualy so as to eradite .

Even after World War II had end, homosexuals who had died or been imprisoned the mps were not acknowledged as havg been victims of Nazi persecutn due to the overwhelmg stigma.

Last year Lebanon, five men crimally acced of homosexualy were forced to subm to a police orred tt on behalf of the “Moral Protectn Bure. Refal to take the tt those s was ed as evince that they were homosexuals.