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Related: About this forumHorrific new details emerge as "gay purge" in Chechnya worsens
The nightmare in Chechnya rages on
LGBTQ activists in Russia say two people have died and dozens more have been detained in what the Associated Press calls a gay purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
According to the Russian LGBT Network, around 40 men and women have been held in detention since December on suspicion of being gay. Two of the detainees have died of torture, the group says.
Widespread detentions, torture and killings of gay people have resumed in Chechnya, Russian LGBT Network program director Igor Kochetkov says. Persecution of men and women suspected of being gay never stopped. Its only that its scale has been changing.
Alvi Karimov, a spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, tells the Interfax news agency that no one in Chechnya has been detained for being gay and that the reports to the contrary are complete lies and dont have an ounce of truth in them.
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rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)rpannier
(24,342 posts)OSCE Cites Torture, Executions Among 'Grave' Rights Violations In Chechnya
Authorities in Russia's Chechnya region have committed torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions, and other very serious human rights violations and abuses, an expert report has concluded.
The fact-finding report on human rights violations and abuses in Chechnya, presented at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on December 20, said the victims included members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, human right defenders, lawyers, independent media, and civil society organizations.
It found a worsening climate of intimidation against journalists and civil society activists and a climate of impunity, which it said is detrimental to any accountability for human rights violations.
https://www.rferl.org/a/osce-cites-torture-executions-among-grave-rights-violations-in-chechnya/29667900.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-chechnya-lgtb/29711726.html
SunSeeker
(51,745 posts)Odoreida
(1,549 posts)A good analogy would be to think of Kadyrov as the captain of a ship, and Putin as the admiral.
So on the one hand, Kadyrov runs Chechnya as he sees fit (and has no foreign policy of his own), but he doesn't do anything that Putin would find seriously objectionable.
And being a Muslim himself, Kadyrov sits better with the historically rebellious Chechens than direct rule from Russia.
Putin inherited a gay rights regime from Yeltsin that was actually pretty liberal for the 1990s, but he is moving Russian society away from that.
Chechnya is not just hideous on gay rights, it is the laboratory to perfect persecution methods for Russia going forward.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Of course by the time it comes to fruition it may be too late to stop it. Fuck Chechnya.