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https://www.thedailybeast.com/activists-chechen-authorities-demand-families-kill-lgbt-family-members-also-pay-ransoms?ref=home
Russian campaigners have told The Daily Beast that Chechen authorities have ordered people to kill LGBT members of their own families, and have demanded ransoms for the release of detained LGBT relatives.
According to reports, at least 40 people have been arrested in the last two to three weeks, many of them tortured, in a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. Two gay men have reportedly died following torture.
Chechen authorities demanded that relatives punish their gay family members by executing them, one of the St. Petersburg volunteers for the Russian LGBT Network, who did not wish to be named, told The Daily Beast. Several people who managed to escape have been raped with police clubs and tortured with electricity.
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Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)But we all know the Christian leaders who have the president's ear wish they could do this in our country.
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)then nuke the place.
Death -- screaming, motherfucker death -- to anyone, anywhere, any time that acts like these "authorities"
And fuck the people who support them.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This may not be popular here, but Chechnya is 95% Muslim. The Russians are no better.
Behind the Aegis
(53,963 posts)The world looks on and says, "Just gay people!" Others make excuses..."we need to respect religious beliefs" and "I am sure it is not "gay" people but "pervs"." Think I am being "over the top", just look in various news sites reporting this...including comments here!