Gay men ‘electrocuted and stng up by legs’ new wave of torture Chechnya, says human rights group | The Inpennt | The Inpennt

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• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
• LURED TO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

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. A teenager who was horrifilly tortured after meetg someone on gay datg app Grdr has reunted the oral as he prs for hate crime Whe, then 18, was throttled, had his wrists cut and neck sliced a bathtub of bloody water June 2020.

The attack happened when he met Chance Sene, 19, for a first date, he, who is om Louisiana and is openly gay, was physilly srred for life.

HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG

—Warng: This report ntas graphic and upsettg tails—Whe and Sene met on Grdr, which is primarily ed by gay and bisexual men, and had been msagg for about a month before meetg up at Sene's home.

Lafayette Police Department said they are not vtigatg the cint as a hate crime, but Whe and his fay say the attack was homophobilly pot to a Facebook acunt, purportedly belongg to Sene, that featur a profile picture of Jefey Dahmer, the nnibal serial killer who murred 16 men and boys om 1978 to 1991, as evince. Rayette Gaspard said her son was a "good kid, " addg: "He stands for the gay Pri thg, he's won all sorts of trophi for actg, he's a good kid, he don't do dgs. "Instead, he chose to do somethg to someone who's gay and proud about his sexualy.

He went on an app signated for gay people.

LURED TO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY

He chose to choose someone who is gay and very proud of his sexualy. Some gays weren’t feelg the ‘Rh’ after watchg the vio for Troye Sivan’s new song — and the Atralian pop star says he now unrstands why.

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

Last week, Sivan marked his anticipated mil eback wh the release of sexy, gay, o-to-poppers earworm “Rh, ” and wh arrived a horny, gloryhole-featurg vio that had some queer people divid over the body diversy (or lack thereof) wh .

Some, cludg the homosexual journalist wrg this story, cricized Sivan for optg for exclively skny, mostly whe men his visual.

ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

And as I tweeted after watchg the visual for the first time, seemed to ph the WeHo gay-endorsed narrative of “how whe gays choose to view queer people as a whole … jt whe twks and chiseled bodi. Charli XCX — Sivan’s “1999” llaborator and gay-man godss — shared her own thoughts on the nversatn, scribg gays’ ask for body diversy art as “borg disurse.

It’s tertg that twks and f bodi are viewed as “mon athetics” to Charli, and fat or non-skny gays are not though. Anywhomst, the gays are exced for the new era of Troye Sivan.