Over 100 gay men are said to have been taed and tortured.
Contents:
- CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
- CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.
- AT LEAST 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN ROUND UP AND THROWN NCENTRATN MPS CHECHNYA
- ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE
- ‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
- REPORTS OF CHECHNYA'S GAY CONCENTRATN CAMPS SPARK IRE—BUT NOT FROM TMP
CHECHNYA’S HORRIFIC ‘GAY PURGE’: A 4-YEAR TIMELE OF ABDUCTN, TORTURE AND MURR
A new film, "Wele to Chechnya," documents the torture, disappearanc, and extrajudicial killgs of gay men the Rsian republic. * chechnya gay camps *
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. 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.
CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.
The Netherlands is one of a handful of European untri givg refuge to gay Chechens, after reports emerged that Chechnya's thori were roundg up and torturg the LGBT muny. * chechnya gay camps *
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.
AT LEAST 100 GAY MEN HAVE BEEN ROUND UP AND THROWN NCENTRATN MPS CHECHNYA
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 clubs. * chechnya gay camps *
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. 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.
ALLEGED GAY 'CONCENTRATN CAMPS' IN CHECHNYA SPARK GLOBAL OUTRAGE
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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.
‘THEY STARVE YOU. THEY SHOCK YOU’: INSI THE ANTI-GAY POGROM CHECHNYA
A Rsian newspaper reported that Chechens spected of beg gay are beg round up and taed secret prisons. * chechnya gay camps *
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.
REPORTS OF CHECHNYA'S GAY CONCENTRATN CAMPS SPARK IRE—BUT NOT FROM TMP
Usg classic K.G.B. tactics, secury officers lured gay men to traps and tortured them to givg up the inti of others like them. * chechnya gay camps *
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). 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.
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.