Chechnya’s Horrific ‘Gay Purge’: A 4-Year Timele of Abductn, Torture and Murr | Hor, the Queer Social Network

Contents:

• CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV
• INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED
• GAY MEN ‘ELECTROCUTED AND STNG UP BY LEGS’ NEW WAVE OF TORTURE CHECHNYA, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
• LURED TO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY
• HOLN WHE, GAY TEEN TORTURED ON GRDR DATE, SEEKS HATE CRIME CHARG
• ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• LOUISIANA MAN USED GRDR TO KIDNAP, TORTURE GAY MEN, PROSECUTORS SAY

CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR

April 1, 2021, marks four years sce the world at large was first ma aware of Chechnya’s gay purge — atroci mted agast LGBTQ people wh the Rsian republic’s borrs, a horrific, ongog stratagem of abductn, tament, torture and murr. Gradually rebed by Wtern ernments over the years as first-hand acunts began to emerge, Chechnya’s gay purge has largely been ignored — if not supported through omissn — by Rsian Print Vladimir Put and his ernment. In return, the Kreml has fund Kadyrov’s police state and mostly turns a bld eye to human rights ab, cludg Chechnya’s ongog gay purge.

Abhorrent extrajudicial actns agast LGBTQ people did not first sprg up April of 2017; ed, lol thori excelled at blackmailg the republic’s gay muny for years prr. After weeks of verifitn, the Rsian-language newspaper shar heart-wrenchg news out of Rsia’s North Cs: More than 100 people have been taed Chechnya, all of whom are gay or spected to be. Some of the taed were eventually released and able to flee Chechnya, while others were released only upon handg over about other gay iends and acquatanc.

” Lol thori tell a news agency, “You nnot arrt or reprs people who jt don’t exist the republic, ” suggtg that Chechnya has no gay cizens, and that if did, those cizens’ relativ would have executed them unr honor killg ctoms.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

In a mosque loted the cy of Grozny, relig lears meet and suggt a massacre of journalists for reportg on Chechnya’s gay purge. Amnty Internatnal lnch an “urgent actn” mpaign askg dividuals to wre to Rsian thori “urgg them to rry out prompt, effective and thorough vtigatns to the reports of abductns and killgs of men believed to be gay Chechnya and to ensure that anyone found guilty or plic such crim will be brought to jtice acrdance wh the laws of the Rsian Feratn.

One of the victims of Chechnya’s gay purge, an aforementned TV journalist, has all footage of his past reportg erased by the Chechen State TV and Rad Company he worked for — “as if he simply did not exist. It’s now believed that up to several hundred gay men have been round up, some killed, Chechnya, and The Guardian publish this story followg terviews wh gay men who claim they were tortured secret tentn facili. The newspaper urg the Rsian ernment to rpond to lls for a jihad agast journalists reportg on Chechnya’s gay purge, cg the April 3 meetg of 15, 000 at the central mosque of Grozny.

Lra Weste, print of the Colombian-based NGO Gpo Acción y Apoyo a Personas Trans tweets a satelle picture that reportedly shows one lotn where gay men are beg held Chechnya’s gay purge. Chechen Print Ramzan Kadyrov tegoriz the ternatnal outcry over Chechnya’s gay purge as an attempt to “blacken our society, liftyle, tradns and ctoms. OutRight Actn Internatnal urg three oil pani wh large vtments Rsian oil and gas — Brish Petrolm, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell — to publicly nmn Chechnya’s gay purge.

INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED

“This is one of the worst homophobic mpaigns the world has ever seen, ” says OutRight Actn Internatnal Executive Director Jsi Stern. As part of a special vtigatn, CNN releas terviews wh multiple victims of Chechnya’s gay purge (their inti ncealed), who discs the form their torture took and the “ath sentence” that has always rulted om beg openly gay the Southern Rsian republic.

At a meetg wh Put, the Chechen print scrib articl about Chechnya’s gay purge as “provotive” and sists claims that gay men are beg taed are unte. Speakg to Gay Star News, a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokperson the UK nfirms that Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic, has threatened to rid the area of homosexualy “by Ramadan, ” which falls on May 26. Other ci see anized protts agast Chechnya’s gay purge as well, cludg London (April 12), Amsterdam (April 19), Toronto (April 22) and Manchter (April 23).

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

Novaya Gazeta reports there are six known secret prisons for gays Chechnya, one of which is loted the town of Argun and another is the village of Tsotsi-Yurt. The AP publish a report which they terviewed two gay men (one his 30s, one his 40s) a safe hoe provid by LGBT activists.

In this same terview wh the AP, Tatyana Vnichenko, head of the Rsian LGBT Network, assistg around 40 gay men lookg to flee Chechnya, says the U. Durg a public prs nference wh Vladimir Put, German Chancellor Angela Merkel be the only world lear th far to speak out amid the ongog reports of Chechnya’s gay purge. She lls on Put to “e his fluence to guarantee the rights of mori” after hearg “negative reports on the treatment of homosexuals, particularly Chechnya.

LURED TO A TRAP, THEN TORTURED FOR BEG GAY

Followg reports of a 17-year-old man thrown off a nth floor balny by his own uncle for beg gay, Hor announc the lnch of s “Know Your Rights” mpaign, an tnal effort to help make gay men and travelers aware of their rights different untri around the world.

The mpaign also provis a map of untri that have crimalized homosexualy and rourc on where and how to report human rights vlatns around the world. As 20 men are now believed to be ad as a rult of Chechnya’s gay purge, Whe Hoe Prs Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanrs n’t say whether U. One week after Rsia promised to nduct an vtigatn to Chechnya’s gay purge, the Rsian Embassy to Israel wr to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “There are no victims of persecutn, threats or vlence” the republic.

” The letter also claims Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milasha “has her own agenda … [wh] no nnectn whatsoever to protectg the rights of gays.

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

One of many artists and activists spreadg rmatn and brgg awarens to Chechnya’s gay purge, Brooklyn-based illtrator Pl Tuller sells a new T-shirt, wh 100% of the profs gog to the Rsian LGBTQ Network.

ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA

The Rsian LGBT Network acc the Uned Stat of clg to give visas to gay Chechens fleeg their untry’s months-long mpaign of kidnappg, tament and torture.

Three French LGBTQ groups — Stop Homophobia, Mose and Come Idaho France — file a plat agast Chechnya wh the Internatnal Crimal Court, accg the Rsian republic of “a policy of genoci” towards gay people and blamg Chechen print Ramzan Kadyrov and his officials for a “wave of persecutn. The plat also lls Kadyrov “the archect of a genoci” and “the anizer of torture mps wh a sire to extermate homosexuals. The Baltic News Service reports that the eastern European natn of Lhuania has granted visas to at least two men who fled Chechnya’s gay purge, timed wh the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT).

The prott ends peacefully wh no arrts or major disturbanc, even though such non-permted monstratns are illegal Rsia and n afoul of the natn’s so-lled “gay propaganda” law.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Novaya Gazeta publish a report sayg 26 people have now been murred “extrajudicial killgs” as part of Chechnya’s gay purge, and go on to acce Chechen thori of a systematic sabotage of Rsia’s vtigatn efforts. And Chechen officials have forced relativ of ad, missg or ped gay men to dulently sign affidavs claimg the men left Chechnya to work elsewhere Rsia. The ostensible purpose of the torture is to get the nam of other gay men, but one refugee tells Human Rights Watch that if a victim giv up rmatn, actually prolongs the torture hop of more rmatn.

LOUISIANA MAN USED GRDR TO KIDNAP, TORTURE GAY MEN, PROSECUTORS SAY

Officials also rerd the torture ssns on cellphone meras to show fai later as proof of what will happen to them if they do not “remove the sta of homosexual shame om their fai. Erick says 6, 000 people donated and 7, 300 people shared the mpaign, cludg gay Star Trek actor Gee Takei, which helped boost s notoriety. Rsian journalist Ira Gordienko of Novaya Gazeta is a nomee the Gala s Outs d’Or Paris, for her verage of Chechnya’s gay purge.