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Related: About this forumRussian Pop Star Zelimkhan Bakaev, Tortured and Killed In Chechnya Anti-Gay Roundup
Sources are reporting that Russian singer Zelimkhan Bakaev was arrested, tortured, and murdered by by Chechen authorities due to suspicion of homosexuality.
Bakaev was last seen on August 8 in Grozny, where he had come from Moscow for his sisters wedding
Bakaevs Instagram account has mysteriously been deleted, but a small Twitter account in his name remains active, offering no recent updates. Earlier this week, Igor Kocketkovof the Russian LGBT Network made a statement to the media that touched on the disappearance, saying:
At the end of August, we received confirmation of our earlier presumption that [Bakaev] was detained by Chechen authorities due to suspicion of homosexuality.
A source close to activists in the region have stated that Bakaev, 26, was tortured to death. He arrived in Grozny and was picked up by police within three hours, they claimed. Within ten hours he was murdered.
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The russian government is working on it.
Don't worry.
It will soon publish a report whether the violent madman whom Putin cannot afford to alienate is behaving in a way that will make Russia look really, really, really bad internationally.
Irish_Dem
(47,321 posts)For manufactured reasons.
irisblue
(33,019 posts)Odoreida
(1,549 posts)Chechnya is a "federal subject" of the Russian Federation, which means it's only sort of independent.
I'm seeing this as a trial balloon for Russia proper.