A new film, "Wele to Chechnya," documents the torture, disappearanc, and extrajudicial killgs of gay men the Rsian republic.
Contents:
- CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.
- ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY BRASILEIRO A OçãO NA ESPANHA
- APóS SER MORTO A FADAS, HOMEM GAY é IXADO EM POSIçãO CZ
- ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY NA ESPANHA MOTIVA PROTTOS NTRA A HOMOFOBIA EM TODO O PAíS
- QUARTO SPEO ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY BRASILEIRO é PRO NA ESPANHA
- JOVEM GAY é ASSASSADO A TIROS NTRO BARBEARIA EM SP
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
- ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY ORIGEM BRASILEIRA GERA PROTTOS NA ESPANHA
CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.
* gay e assassinado *
Activists display plards ont of the Chancellery Berl on April 30, 2017, durg a monstratn llg on the Rsian print to put an end to the persecutn of gay men Chechnya. “Wele to Chechnya: Insi the Rsian Republic’s Deadly War on Gays, ” which premiered at the Sundance Ftival January and airs on HBO next week, is one of the most harrowg films I have ever seen. “Image the 21st century, a supposedly secular untry, ” says David Isteev, at the start of this acclaimed documentary, “you have s where people are killed simply bee they are homosexual — where they are maimed, where the fai of the people are urged to kill their children and siblgs.
ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY BRASILEIRO A OçãO NA ESPANHA
A Polícia Civil Mato Grosso passou a vtigar um crime btal um home gay 29 anos, intifido o Roger André Soar da Silva. Ele era * gay e assassinado *
“Wele to Chechnya” follows Isteev, emergency program ordator for the Rsian LGBT Network, and his fellow activists as they risk their liv tryg to protect gay Chechens om beg targeted both by the thori and their own fai. It is also a place where gay people live terror. Sce 2017, there have been a seri of state-sponsored anti-gay purg across Chechnya, which hundreds of gay men have been arrted and taed secret prisons.
“We documented a large-sle, vic, anti-gay purge” marked by “torture, enforced disappearanc, and extrajudicial killgs, ” Tanya Loksha, the Rsia program director at Human Rights Watch, told me a phone terview om Mosw.
APóS SER MORTO A FADAS, HOMEM GAY é IXADO EM POSIçãO CZ
In December 2018, there were reports of a send wave of arrts and attacks agast gay Chechens. For David France, the award-wng director of “Wele to Chechnya, ” mak no sense to talk of a “first” or a “send” purge, as is all part of a sgle ongog mpaign of persecutn agast gay Chechens.
ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY NA ESPANHA MOTIVA PROTTOS NTRA A HOMOFOBIA EM TODO O PAíS
Like every good tyrant, Kadyrov has a list of “unsirabl” who are monized and spegoated for all of the untry’s problems — and top of his list are gay people. It is the Chechen lear who orred the roundg up and tentn of gay men, who he lls “subhuman” and “vils. ” In recent years, he has also been “jtifyg and enuragg” so-lled honor killgs of gay Chechens by their fai while his admistratn, France explaed to me, ref to prosecute such crim.
In an terview July 2017, HBO sports reporter David Stt asked Kadyrov about the anti-gay pogroms his untry.
QUARTO SPEO ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY BRASILEIRO é PRO NA ESPANHA
“We don’t have any gays.
He se his war on gay people as part of his “Islamizatn” project. Yet the fact of the matter is that homophobia, as I have wrten prevly, is rife many Mlim muni across the world. Chechnya, though, is a gay-hatg league of s own.
As Human Rights Watch has noted, the Rsian republic “is a highly nservative, tradnal Mlim society; homophobia is tense and rampant, and homosexualy is generally viewed as a sta on fay honor. Human Rights Council llg for “a swift, thorough and impartial vtigatn to the alleged persecutn” of gay people Chechnya.
JOVEM GAY é ASSASSADO A TIROS NTRO BARBEARIA EM SP
Those Chechens, seems, are the wrong kd of Mlims — they are gay Mlims. The vic pogroms agast gay men Chechnya, however, nnot only be laid at the door of Islam or Mlims.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH COM OUT AS GAY IN A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
Rsia self is plagued by homophobia — enuraged both by the Rsian Orthodox Church and the untry’s print. ” “If they told him that gays were beg killed, he wouldn’t give a damn.
” In 2013, Put signed the now-notor “gay propaganda” law, which crimalized the distributn of “propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatnships. ” Polls suggt a majory of Rsians believe gays are nspirg to “stroy” the untry’s valu, while 1 5 of them want to “elimate” gay and lbian people om Rsian society.
Then there is the global ntext: As the director, France, remd me, homosexualy remas illegal more than 70 untri across the world and is punishable by ath eight of them.
ASSASSATO JOVEM GAY ORIGEM BRASILEIRA GERA PROTTOS NA ESPANHA
Is any wonr, then, that activists talk of a “gay genoci”? In May 2017, fact, three French gay rights groups filed a plat at the Internatnal Crimal Court accg Chechnya of a policy of genoci agast gay people. Holot Memorial Mm, “an timated 100, 000 men were arrted for vlatg Nazi Germany’s law agast homosexualy, and of the, approximately 50, 000 were sentenced to prison.