“Wele to Chechnya” Reveals the Killg of Gay People

Contents:

• GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP
• GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS
• GAY LIFE QATAR
• MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’
• GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR
• CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.
• GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP
• ISIS SHARIA URTS SENTENCE GAY MAN TO BE THROWN TO HIS ATH
• TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA
• TWO GAY MEN ARE “MORTAL DANGER” AFTER BEG ARRTED BY RSIAN THORI
• REPORT: ISIS DOCUMENTS KILLG OF GAY MAN MOSUL

GAY MAN 'HUNTED' BY QATAR POLICE AND GANG-RAPED HOTEL ROOM AHEAD OF WORLD CUP

The World Cup will start jt two weeks' time, spe grave ncerns over Qatar's rerd on human rights, wh the Middle East untry ntug to persecute the LGBT+ munyA gay man has claimed he was hunted by police ahead of the upg World CupA gay man who has prevly livg Qatar has claimed he was 'hunted' by the untry's police force before beg gang-raped a hotel room. (Beit) – Qatar Preventive Secury Department forc have arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and subjected them to ill-treatment tentn, Human Rights Watch said today. Gay Qataris have been promised safety om physil torture exchange for helpg the thori to track down other LGBTQ+ people the untry, a proment Qatari doctor and gay rights mpaigner has told the Nasser Mohamed, who liv the US but retas ntact wh hundreds of gay Qataris, said that some secret works had been promised after arrts by Qatar’s preventive secury partment.

”Last month Human Rights Watch reported that Qatar’s preventive secury partment forc had arbrarily arrted lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people and subjected them to ill‑treatment tentn. A gay man intified only as “Ali” told the Brish newspaper i that a datg attempt Qatar, set to host this month’s FIFA World Cup, end wh police officers gang-rapg and ultimately portg him.

GAY QATARIS PHYSILLY ABED THEN RECED AS AGENTS, MPAIGNER SAYS

Ali, a Filipo man who had traveled to Qatar for work, said that he had ma plans to meet a Turkish man who claimed to also be gay at a hotel and found six police officers the room. Speakg to i, he acknowledged that intifyg as LGBT or any activy associated wh beg gay is illegal the untry but qutned why police felt the need to rape and torture him prr to his arrt.

GAY LIFE QATAR

Ali’s story dited that reprsn of spected gay people went far beyond f or jail sentenc for those vlatg l of public behavr to route entrapment operatns meant to huiate and torture LGBT people. Nasser Mohamed, an LGBT rights advote that i scribed as the only “publicly out gay Qatari the world, ” explaed that the men who gang-raped Ali were likely part of Qatar’s “Preventive Secury Department, ” an agency separate om the policy that acts as an “unhged mafia that go [around] arrtg people. “They go unrver, they pull people om public plac, jt on the spicn of them beg gay, ” he explaed, often targetg visibly genr non-nformg people, such as men who have long hair or wear makp.

MAN JAILED TURKEY FOR 20 DAYS JT BEE HE ‘LOOKED GAY’

Completely overlookg the social impact of such a huge ternatnal event such a ty Islamic place as Qatar FIFA got self to hot water om human rights anizatns as well as gay rights associatns. The UK gay football group, The Jt Campaign, as well as activist John Ameechi, said was eply ncerned: “spe their apparent mment to humanarian valu and the promotn of global solidary through football, FIFA is sendg out a msage loud and clear that the rights of the global LGBT muny do not even register on their agenda… Sport should never be allowed to tmp human rights. ) by subsequent ments by the FIFA Print Sepp Blatter who tried to mimize the ncerns of the gay football fans worldwi by sayg that gays, to avoid trouble, should simply not have sex while Qatar: “homosexual fans should rea om any sexual activi that are illegal Qatar”.

However, even if a gay person is most and discreet he (unlikely she) may be targeted by foul-md lol Qatari men for any number of reasons such as blackmail, money, sexual abe or relig enmy. There are no gay plac here, except one, and my opn, we n’t say that ’s really gay bee ’s the only place where guys n enter whout girls, and a lot of straight guys go there as well. Speakg here is a gay heart yearng to be ee yet tied to forbiddg circumstanc that are likely to nfe and fe his entire life cludg marriage to someone he n’t fully love, producg some offsprg and warg a mask behd a closed door to thentic love and timacy.

In 2004 a potential sndal was supprsed and th avoid when the Qatar’s 25 year old Crown Prce Tamim B Hamad Al-Thani was allegedly seen at a London gay bar and was volved an altertn.

GAY FOOTBALLER JOSH CAVALLO WOULD BE ‘SRED’ TO PLAY AT WORLD CUP QATAR

To make this suatn even more bizarre, the prs quoted Dr Yuf al-Qaradawi, a Mlim fundamentalist scholar based Qatar, as sayg homosexual behavr is servg of rporal punishment cludg beg stoned to ath. Another dark si of hidn homosexualy Qatar is revealed recent reports of sex-traffickg of poor gay Kenyan male stunts who have been lured to Qatar wh the promise of good jobs only to fd they’ve bee entrapped by wealthy Qatar lols to e for their sexual pleasure. It isn’t illegal to be gay Turkey, but the untry has bee an creasgly hostile place for queer people wh senr policians, relig lears and retailers lnchg attacks on the LGBTQ+ muny.

Words by ITV News Digal Journalist Jocelyn EvansLGBT+ people Qatar have been arrted and beaten police ctody as recently as September, a human rights group has Rights Watch (HRW) spoke to six dividuals who scribed beg verbally and physilly harassed an unrground prison 's penal punish same-sex relatns wh up to seven years people have long suffered unrneath Qatar's penal , but 's now e unr global scty ahead of the FIFA Men's World Cup terviewed four trans women, one bisexual woman, and one gay man - all of whom said they were verbally and physilly abed at an unrground prison were taed whout charge, one se for two months solary nfement. [1/2]Veteran Brish LGBTs rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell, holds a sign ont of the Natnal Mm of Qatar readg "Qatar arrts, jails & subjects LGBTs to 'nversn' #QatarAntiGay", Doha, Qatar, October 25, 2022.

CHECHNYA IS TRYG TO EXTERMATE GAY PEOPLE. OUR SILENCE ONLY EMBOLNS VLADIMIR PUT AND RAMZAN KADYROV.

Tatchell, who had staged a siar prott ahead of the 2018 World Cup Rsia, stood for more than an hour wearg a T-shirt emblazoned wh "#Qatarantigay" and holdg a plard that read “Qatar arrts and subjects LGBTs to nversn” uniformed police officers and three pla cloth officials arrived at the scene. Homosexualy is illegal the nservative Mlim untry, and some soccer stars have raised ncerns over the rights of fans travellg for the event, pecially LGBT+ dividuals and women, whom rights groups say Qatari laws discrimate agast.

The world’s only openly gay top‑flight men’s footballer says he would be “sred” to play at the World Cup tournament Qatar next year bee of the emirate’s harsh ban on homosexualy and legal penalti rangg om floggg to lengthy prison terms and Cavallo, 21, who plays for Alai Uned Atralia’s A-League, received a wave of support om football fans and current and former players last month after openg up about his sexualy a vio posted to the club’s social media feeds. ”The announcement ma Cavallo the only out gay player men’s profsnal football, his isolatn stark a sport whose admistrators have lnched high-profile public mpaigns recent years embracg LGBT fans and only a handful of male players have ever e out, ntrast to the women’s game, which has easily blown past the same barrier: more than 40 lbian or bisexual players took part the 2019 women’s World Cup France, acrdg to Fifa. Crics have raised the fact that Fifa ntu to award World Cups to untri such as Rsia – where homophobia has been lled a “state‑sponsored” project – and Qatar, where same-sex acts are illegal, as evince of the erng body’s patchy mment to if holdg the tournament a untry wh strict penalti for homosexualy sent the wrong msage to gay footballers and fans, Cavallo, who has played for Atralia’s unr-20s ternatnal si, told the Guardian’s daily news podst that he would be aaid for his safety if asked to participate the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

GAY PEOPLE LIVG UNR RADAR QATAR PREPARE WARILY FOR WORLD CUP

'I'm a footballer and I'm gay': A-League player Josh Cavallo talks about his sexualy – vio“I read somethg along the l of that [they] give the ath penalty for gay people Qatar, so ’s somethg I’m very sred [of] and wouldn’t really want to go to Qatar for that, ” he said. At the end of the day the World Cup is Qatar and one of the greatt achievements as a profsnal footballer is to play for your untry, and to know that this is a untry that don’t support gay people and puts at risk of our own life, that do sre me and mak me re-evaluate – is my life more important than dog somethg really good my reer?

Mlims the untry n be subject to Sharia law that bans any sexual activy outsi marriage wh punishments rangg up to the ath penalty, meang homosexual acts n technilly rult executn, though several human rights reports have said there is no evince any gay people have been executed for the offence. ”Along wh the appallg ndns for migrant workers buildg the astcture for the tournament, the prospect of gay fans or players beg arrted Qatar has dogged Fifa sce the emirate was announced as host of the tournament 2010. The anisatn’s then print, Sepp Blatter, fuelled the ntroversy the same year when he was asked if he had any advice for gay people who wanted to travel to the Gulf state for the petn.

But they walk a fe le between acmodatg what are now mastream attus towards gay people much of the world and the untry’s own nservative relig the tournament has approached, Qatari officials have sought to reassure LGBT fans that they will be wele the untry and n exprs themselv – wh lims. “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.

ISIS SHARIA URTS SENTENCE GAY MAN TO BE THROWN TO HIS ATH

“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.

“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.

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.

TWO CHECHEN GAY MEN 'MORTAL DANGER' AFTER ARRT RSIA

” 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. 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. “If there’s no punishment, ” says an exhsted-lookg Isteev toward the end of the film, “if LGBT people are regard as subhuman, if you n do anythg to them, means that tomorrow, anyone n fd themselv the sho of gay Chechens.

Qatari officials have said that everyone is wele to attend, regardls of their background — but wh veats such as rpectg the untry’s month, participants at a human rights ngrs hosted by the German soccer feratn urged the Qatari ambassador to Berl to abolish penalti for homosexualy Qatar, the Associated Prs reported. REUTERS/Fabriz Bensch/ Acquire Licensg RightsDOHA, Nov 19 (Rters) - A group of Arab iends livg Qatar's pal Doha met up over cktails and snacks last week, exchangg opns as they flicked through profil of gay men on datg apps Tr and phone of one flashed wh a msage om a suor around the rner.

The man his 20s leapt up om the table, leavg to meet his date iends, who met up days before the soccer World Cup kicks off Qatar on Sunday, are part of a Doha gay scene that's managg to fly unr the radar a natn where same-sex relatns are illegal and punishable by up to three years of jail-time. "Rters spoke to four gay men Doha - the Wterner, two Qataris pl an Arab om elsewhere the regn - who said they lived the untry, a mag for foreign workers, bee they had well-paid jobs, pl iends or fay four spoke on ndn of anonymy due to ncern over possible punishment om thori.

TWO GAY MEN ARE “MORTAL DANGER” AFTER BEG ARRTED BY RSIAN THORI

"It's not all sufferg, " said a 30-year-old gay Arab man who has lived and worked Doha for nearly 10 fact, the four exprsed worri about the wave of ternatnal cricism about gay rights Qatar brought by the World Cup, fearg they uld lose the eedoms they do enjoy should the opprobrium lead to a public backlash agast the LGBT+ muny once global attentn mov on. "The men prent jt one snapshot of life for gay people the Gulf natn - and the four regnise their relative eedoms are a product of privilege; they n afford to live alone, host parti and meet partners high-end rtrants or nightclubs, where the strict l of Qatari society are often more 's not like that for members of Qatar's LGBT muny have reported beg taed, some as recently as September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. A Qatari official cricised the HRW report as ntag false rmatn and said the untry do not license or operate nversn Mohamed, a gay Qatari physician who has lived the Uned Stat for about a , weled the attentn the tournament has drawn to Qatar's rights rerd, sayg prompted him to speak out wily about his sexualy.

REPORT: ISIS DOCUMENTS KILLG OF GAY MAN MOSUL

9 ln populatn, wh the rt foreign workers, rangg om low-e nstctn workers to high-powered four men terviewed by Rters said that there were strong fancial and reer centiv to ridg the untry, addg that life for gay people there was better than some other plac the Middle ced Sdi Arabia and Iran, where men have been sentenced to ath for beg gay.. "Qatari anisers of the World Cup have warned visors agast public displays of affectn but say that everyone, no matter their sexual orientatn or background, is wele at the the tournament, medil practners will not ask patients about their extramaral sex, relign or any other stat, acrdg to the Yoef Al Maslamani, the healthre spokperson for the FIFA World the 12 years sce Qatar was named host of the 2022 tournament, the untry has faced tensifyg cricism over s rights rerd on laborers, women and the LGBT furore has been fuelled by ments om public figur cludg former Qatar player and World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman who told a German broadster that homosexualy was "damage the md".

Before a crowd of men on a street the Syrian cy of Palmyra, the masked Islamic State group judge read out the sentence agast the two men nvicted of homosexualy: They would be thrown to their aths om the roof of the nearby Wael asked one of the men if he was satisfied wh the sentence. Sick: This disturbg photograph - believed to have taken place Mosul - shows a gay man beg dangled over the edge of the high buildg by his ankl before beg droppedMoments om ath: A send shots shows the bldfold man tumblg through the air the stg posn wh his legs outstretched as he hurtl towards the groundNotor for their gome methods of killg, ISIS rerv one of s most btal for spected has released show masked ants danglg men over the precipic of buildgs by their legs to drop them head-first or tossg them over the edge. At least 36 men Syria and Iraq have been killed by ISIS ants on charg of sodomy, acrdg to the New York-based OutRight Actn Internatnal, though s Middle East and North Ai ordator, Hosse Alizah, said was not possible to nfirm the sexual orientatn of the fear of a horrific ath among gay men unr ISIS le is further pound by their isolatn a eply nservative society that largely shuns Mlims nsir homosexualy to be sful.