Gay men are beg round up and put to ‘ncentratn mps’ Chechnya, has been claimed.
Contents:
- RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
- MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
- REPORTS OF ‘NCENTRATN MPS’ AND TORTURE FOR GAY MEN RSIA
- RSIAN REPORTER WHO EXPOSED CHECHEN 'TENTN AND TORTURE OF GAY MEN' GO TO HIDG AS ALLEGATNS WIN
- ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE
- CHECHEN POLICE 'KIDNAP AND TORTURE GAY MEN' - LGBT ACTIVISTS
- LONDONERS PROTT GAY ‘NCENTRATN MPS’, ANTI-LGBTQ VLENCE CHECHNYA
- CHECHNYA LGBT: DOZENS 'TAED NEW GAY PURGE'
- GAY "CONCENTRATN CAMPS" CHECHNYA: WHAT’S REAL, WHAT’S FAKE AND WHAT’S EXAGGERATED
RSIA'S LGBT 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS': PRISONS FOR GAY MEN IN CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
Reports have surfaced that "ncentratn mps" have been opened up Chechnya where gay men are beg taed and tortured to m that they would leave the republic. * gay concentration camps in russia *
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.
MORE THAN 100 GAY MEN 'SENT TO PRISON MPS' CHECHNYA
* gay concentration camps in russia *
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. 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.
REPORTS OF ‘NCENTRATN MPS’ AND TORTURE FOR GAY MEN RSIA
Over 100 gay men are said to have been taed and tortured. * gay concentration camps in russia *
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.
RSIAN REPORTER WHO EXPOSED CHECHEN 'TENTN AND TORTURE OF GAY MEN' GO TO HIDG AS ALLEGATNS WIN
Kidnappgs and beatgs of gay men are systematic Chechnya, a Rsian activist tells the BBC. * gay concentration camps in russia *
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 emailsOne of the Rsian reporters who exposed the tentn and torture of gay men Chechnya has gone to hidg amid fears of retributn as the spe of alleged abe the Kreml and Chechen ernment have dismissed “provotive” reports by Novaya Gazeta, which said at least 100 men had been round up and jailed at secret prisons on spicn of beg least three have been killed, the newspaper said, while other tailed horrific torture and beatgs before beg released wh the threat of relativ rryg out “honour killgs” Milasha has left her apartment Mosw and plans to flee Rsia after Mlim clerics Chechnya “announced jihad agast all the staff of Novaya Gazeta” over the report, which sparked a global told CNN s offic had received two envelop filled wh whe powr followg the sermon Grozny, which was watched by 15, 000 people and broadst on regnal televisn. ”Hundreds prott at Rsian embassy over 'gay ncentratn mps' ChechnyaThe meetg saw clerics adopt a rolutn llg for the “stigators” of the reports to be held to acunt – a statement nmned as an “cement to massacre journalists. ”The newspaper’s latt report claims that at least six tentn centr are beg ed to hoe men abducted on spicn of beg gay, wh two intified so far Argun and European Unn’s foreign policy chief, Feri Mogheri, told the Rsian ernment had a duty to protect the human rights of all of s cizens durg her first vis to the hold a prott outsi the Rsian Embassy London, followg reports of the torture and murr of gay men Chechnya on 12 April (Josh Whey)“Our expectatn is that the Rsian Feratn do s part to protect s own cizens full rpect of human rights prcipl, ” she told a news nference, addg that she had discsed the issue durg a meetg wh the Rsian foreign mister, Sergei claimed that officials have not yet seen any rmatn nfirmg the reports but add that Mosw is ncerned about “any human rights vlatns”.
Human rights activists said was unlikely that a gay person would e out publicly Chechnya bee of fear of reprisals agast themselv and their fai. A spokman for Mr Kadyrov claimed there were no gay people Chechnya while fendg the ernment agast the allegatns. Internatnal human rights activists are cryg reports that at least 100 gay men have been arrted, and three killed, the Rsian regn of Chechnya.
ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE
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.
CHECHEN POLICE 'KIDNAP AND TORTURE GAY MEN' - LGBT ACTIVISTS
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.
LONDONERS PROTT GAY ‘NCENTRATN MPS’, ANTI-LGBTQ VLENCE CHECHNYA
Image source, AFPImage ptn, Gay rights are rtricted Rsia and ab are worse Chechnya, LGBT activists sayGay men are fleeg btal persecutn Chechnya, where police are holdg more than 100 people and torturg some of them an anti-gay crackdown, Rsian activists say. A ernment spokman lled the reports "li" and said homosexual people "simply don't exist the republic". Homophobia is wispread maly Mlim regn is n by Ramzan Kadyrov, an thorarian lear wh a notor private ia, fiercely loyal to Rsian Print Vladimir Poplevskaya told the BBC that victims - eher gay or jt perceived as gay - are beg held at a tentn centre near Argun, 20km (13 ) om the cy of said the LGBT Network, based St Petersburg, was aware of "an anised mpaign to ta gay men" Chechnya.
All the people arrted are homosexual men or perceived as beg gay, " she said. Media ptn, Svetlana Zakharova om the Rsian LGBT Network tailed the tentns to the BBC World Service's Newshour programmeVictims' hotleThe gay rights group has an email hotle to help victims, or potential victims, flee to other parts of Rsia.
Vigilant claimg to be enforcg Mlim morals have long targeted gay people Rsia's North Cs. But persecutn of gay people Chechnya tensified late Febary, she said.
CHECHNYA LGBT: DOZENS 'TAED NEW GAY PURGE'
But is not a "ncentratn mp" for gays, she said, rejectg the scriptn ed some media reports. Hundreds of activists gather outsi the Rsian Embassy central London prott agast the treatment of homosexuals Chechnya. Hundreds of people gathered outsi the Rsian embassy London on Wednday to prott after reports om human rights groups that up to 100 gay men are beg held and tortured “mps” Rsia’s southern regn of Chechnya.
GAY "CONCENTRATN CAMPS" CHECHNYA: WHAT’S REAL, WHAT’S FAKE AND WHAT’S EXAGGERATED
”The Chechen thori uld not be reached for ment but a spokman for the regn’s print, Ramzan Kadyrov, nied the allegatns to other media, addg that gay men did not exist Chechnya. Svetlana Zakharova, a spokwoman for the Rsian LGBT work, told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by phone that “such mpaigng agast homosexual men is unprecented Rsia. Inpennt newspaper Novaya Gazeta has reported the arrt of members of the gay muny and their beg taken to 'ncentratn mps'.
Prott agast Chechnya's treatment of gay muny, London, UK - 12 Apr 2017. The crackdown a month after several ci the North Cs, where the Chechen republic is loted, asked for perms to stage a strg of gay pri paras, Novaya Gazeta suatn Chechnya is ma worse by a nservative majory-Mlim society where any exprsn of sexualy that is seen as outsi tradnal genr rol is nsired sful, Kirey targetg of LGBT people by their own fai, and honor killgs, are mon the regn, she add.
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Chechen lear Ramzan Kadyrov has prevly claimed the reports were "ma up"Activists Rsia say there has been a new crackdown agast LGBT people Rsian LGBT Network believ about 40 people have been imprisoned sce December - two of whom they say have died unr group has been monorg alleged ab the maly Mlim Rsian republic sce 2017 when dozens of gay people were reportedly taed. Homophobia is wispread the highly nservative and predomantly Mlim Rsian Kadyrov and other ernment figur have repeatedly claimed Chechnya has no gay populatn at all.