? One Year Later: Chechnya’s Concentratn Camps For Gays – Rémy Bonny

Contents:

• MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
• ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE
• AT LEAST 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN ROUND UP AND THROWN NCENTRATN MPS CHECHNYA
• RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY

MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA

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 held “mps” the Chechen Republic where they are subjected to torture and beatgs, human rights mpaigners have claims follow reports last week that 100 gay men had been round up and imprisoned Chechnya, wh at least three people allegedly murred. At the time, Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov’s spokperson nied the claims on the grounds that no one Chechnya is homosexual. Reactn to gay uple Rsia: a social experiment“If such people existed Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them sce their own relativ would have sent them to where they uld never return.

Speakg to the MailOnle, Svetlana Zakharova om the Rsian LGBT work, said: “Gay people have been taed and round up and we are workg to evacuate people om the mps and some have now left the regn. Internatnal human rights activists are cryg reports that at least 100 gay men have been arrted, and three killed, the Rsian regn of Chechnya.

The spokman, Alvi Karimov, then suggted that no gay people were livg the Mlim-majory regn. Much like Karimov before her, however, Saratova downplayed the existence of gay people the regn at large. “In his nfirmatn heargs, [Tillerson] rpond to a qutn on the human rights of LGBTQ people by notg that ‘Amerin valu don’t acmodate vlence or discrimatn agast anyone, ’” advocy unsel Shawn Gaylord said a statement to The Huffgton Post.

ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE

Amnty Internatnal, meanwhile, lnched a petn of s own, mandg that Chechnya to “stop abductg and killg” gay men. ”The Chechen ernment won’t adm that gay men even exist Chechnya, let alone that they orred what the police ll ‘preventive moppg up’ of people they em unsirable, ” the petn, which had over 25, 000 signatur as of Tuday afternoon, read.

“We are seeg very ltle rponse to this the mastream media, and ernment actn so far is poor, ” Steve Taylor, who is the munitns director for the European Pri Organizers Associatn (EPOA) told Gay Star News. Before You GoGay Pri Around The World. THEY are round up the ad of night by gangs of burly and beard mercenari, taken om their beds or nabbed raids on secretive unrground gay social are searched and other spected homosexuals are hunted down, wh some of them ed entrapment-style stg operatns to fd more and more of the so-lled ‘praved’ ptured men — at least 100 of them so far, but probably more — are taken to old ary or police buildgs which have been scribed as “morn day ncentratn mps” by human rights groups.

Beatgs, fe tentn, electrocutn, emotnal abe and bizarre forced quasi-sexual acts have been reported om the horrific prisons the republic of ’s the first time sce World War II and Hler’s Third Reich that homosexual men have been round up and kept of the men hunted by Chechnyan forc are blackmailed and forced to pay large ransoms for their eedom. ”Exactly how long Chechnya’s purge of gay men has been gog on is unclear.

AT LEAST 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN ROUND UP AND THROWN NCENTRATN MPS CHECHNYA

Internatnal attentn has also turned to regnal lear Ramzan Kadyrov, who not only rejects the existence of the mps but ni there are any gay people the disputed terrory at there were, they would sentially be exiled anyway, Kadyrov Kreml has nied any knowledge of the purge but one Rsian newspaper scribed as part of a mpaign “ nnectn wh their non-tradnal sexual orientatn, or spicn of such” level of anisatn, number of perpetrators and accs to state-owned buildgs and rourc suggts high-level volvement, wtern media have intified ncentratn mp was a dised ary mand pound the town of Argun.

”Mobile phon were kept on while the men were taed, so any lovers or gay iends who phoned or msaged uld be round up survivg prisoner said he had seen another man beaten so horrifilly and ntually that he was almost ad. “He was sent to relativ, but after some time beme known that he was buried, ” the man the expose, Novaya Gazeta helped a Rsian LGBT work set up a hotle for gay men to share their own experienc. “People ught Chechnya unr persecutn bee of their sexual orientatn, took to the ntact through var channels, ” the Gazeta reports of Chechnya’s gay purge have attracted ternatnal attentn and nmnatn, wh Ameri’s Ambassador to the Uned Natns Nikki Haley llg for an vtigatn.

“The tentn and ill-treatment of over 100 gay men Chechnya is extremely ncerng. “Law enforcement and secury agency officials unr ntrol of the thls head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, have round up dozens of men on spicn of beg gay, torturg and huiatg the victims.

RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY

The allegatns me after a few eyewns and survivors said terviews wh the Rsian publitn that they were arrted and taed at one of the secret prisons Argun, a town the Chechen Republic, 100 gay men have been reportedly taed and at least three killed the past week Chechnya by the police. The "ncentratn mps" are beg ed to force homosexuals to m that they would leave the republic, acrdg to Novaya Is Vlence Agast LGBT Communy Increasg Unr Tmp Admistratn? The officials Chechnya started torturg the homosexuals after a Rsia-based NGO for LGBT rights — — applied for a gay rights march the pal of Grozny, reports said.

Meanwhile, Chechen’s Print Ramzan Kadyrov, who is a key ally of Rsian Print Vladimir Put, has been acced of settg up the mps to torture gay people. ” The Chechen ernment suggted there are no gay people their untry.

There is a fear among the homosexuals the regn as they are still not accepted. Gay men Chechnya have begun letg their onle acunts or have started fleeg the regn, acrdg to the New York Tim.