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Gay Chechen Man Flees Russia After Months of Police Overuse – Rights Group
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One Year After the Anti-Gay Purge in Chechnya
One year after the first reports about the anti-gay purge in the Chechen Republic were published, RFSL (Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights) and Civil Rights Defenders urge the Russian authorities to properly investigate the grave human rights violations committed against LGBT people in the republic of Chechnya by Chechen rule enforcement agencies in 2017 and up to this day.
Almost a year passed since the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, broke the story of unlawful detentions and torture of LGBT people in Russia’s Chechen republic. The survivor testimonies collected by Novaya Gazeta, Russian LGBT Network and Human Rights Watch, described the horrors of unlawful kidnappings and imprisonment, cases of blackmail and coercion, outings to the family (leading to more violence), brutal torture (both psychological and physical) and even several alleged murders – all perpetrated by Chechen law enforcement agencies and families of the victims.
Throughout 2017 the Russian LGBT Network received over 170 requests for help and managed to relocate 106 members of LGBT community to unharmed houses. A majority of the survivors (88)
'Any day you can be taken': Inside what it's like to be same-sex attracted in Chechnya
GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years.
He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a relatively sheltered animation near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the autonomous republic in southern Russia. Ricky-- a pseudonym-- had known he was lgbtq+ since his early teens but had almost never dated. His relationships were mostly restricted to a tiny circle of friends who had discovered their sexuality together as they grew up. He was careful, he would normally only meet people 3 or 4 times a-year.
Then one day the police arrived at his work.
"The first day they took me and locked me in the cell in our city police station," Ricky said. "Then they took me to another place." After that, the torture began.
"At first, they were just beating me. They punched me and then they hit me with electric shock. They did waterboarding, which was the worst," Ricky told ABC News in a recent interview.
The police had discovered Ricky because of one his friends. They confronted him with a video passed to them by the friend that showed them together, discussing
Intervening in Chechnya during the anti-gay purge
Maxim Lapunov, Chechen LGBTQI+ Refugee featured in HBO Documentary Welcome to Chechnya
When we first heard about the anti-gay purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya, we immediately started working with the Russian LGBT Network to identify individuals who were targeted.
The purge involved forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the police, military and state actors. Queer men have been identified through online profiles and underground intelligence, and rounded up and tortured for information regarding the identities of other LGTBQI+-identified people.
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped and taken to unknown locations where they have been tortured, imprisoned and humiliated for hours—or sometimes weeks—at a hour. Many have been raped, beaten and waterboarded, among other atrocities. Some own been killed or contain disappeared, while others contain been returned to their families after being outed.
Rainbow Railroad was one of the first international organizations on the ground in Russia during the height of the purge. In partnership with numerous international governments, we have relocated more than 70 individual
Demonstration against concentration camps in Chechnya
The Rainbow Project, the largest support and representation organisation for homosexual woman, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people and their families in Northern Ireland, has organised a demonstration against the Chechen government’s creation of concentration camps for gay men.
Reports from Human Rights Survey and the independent Novoya Gazeta possess confirmed that the Chechen government has commenced a programme of hunting down gay men, interning them in concentration camps and subjecting them to torture including sexual degradation. It has been reported that three of the victims have been murdered.
To protest against this extreme violation of human rights and to highlight the failure of the UK government to intervene, The Rainbow Project has organised a demonstration to be held at Belfast City Hall on Friday 14th April at 5.30pm.
Speaking ahead of the demonstration, John O’Doherty, Director of The Rainbow Project, said: ‘There has been widespread state-sponsored intimidation, discrimination and violence against LGBT within the Russian Federation for many years but this action by the Russian republic of Chechn
One Year After the Anti-Gay Purge in Chechnya
One year after the first reports about the anti-gay purge in the Chechen Republic were published, RFSL (Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights) and Civil Rights Defenders urge the Russian authorities to properly investigate the grave human rights violations committed against LGBT people in the republic of Chechnya by Chechen rule enforcement agencies in 2017 and up to this day.
Almost a year passed since the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, broke the story of unlawful detentions and torture of LGBT people in Russia’s Chechen republic. The survivor testimonies collected by Novaya Gazeta, Russian LGBT Network and Human Rights Watch, described the horrors of unlawful kidnappings and imprisonment, cases of blackmail and coercion, outings to the family (leading to more violence), brutal torture (both psychological and physical) and even several alleged murders – all perpetrated by Chechen law enforcement agencies and families of the victims.
Throughout 2017 the Russian LGBT Network received over 170 requests for help and managed to relocate 106 members of LGBT community to unharmed houses. A majority of the survivors (88)
'Any day you can be taken': Inside what it's like to be same-sex attracted in Chechnya
GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years.
He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a relatively sheltered animation near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the autonomous republic in southern Russia. Ricky-- a pseudonym-- had known he was lgbtq+ since his early teens but had almost never dated. His relationships were mostly restricted to a tiny circle of friends who had discovered their sexuality together as they grew up. He was careful, he would normally only meet people 3 or 4 times a-year.
Then one day the police arrived at his work.
"The first day they took me and locked me in the cell in our city police station," Ricky said. "Then they took me to another place." After that, the torture began.
"At first, they were just beating me. They punched me and then they hit me with electric shock. They did waterboarding, which was the worst," Ricky told ABC News in a recent interview.
The police had discovered Ricky because of one his friends. They confronted him with a video passed to them by the friend that showed them together, discussing
Intervening in Chechnya during the anti-gay purge
Maxim Lapunov, Chechen LGBTQI+ Refugee featured in HBO Documentary Welcome to Chechnya
When we first heard about the anti-gay purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya, we immediately started working with the Russian LGBT Network to identify individuals who were targeted.
The purge involved forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the police, military and state actors. Queer men have been identified through online profiles and underground intelligence, and rounded up and tortured for information regarding the identities of other LGTBQI+-identified people.
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped and taken to unknown locations where they have been tortured, imprisoned and humiliated for hours—or sometimes weeks—at a hour. Many have been raped, beaten and waterboarded, among other atrocities. Some own been killed or contain disappeared, while others contain been returned to their families after being outed.
Rainbow Railroad was one of the first international organizations on the ground in Russia during the height of the purge. In partnership with numerous international governments, we have relocated more than 70 individual
Demonstration against concentration camps in Chechnya
The Rainbow Project, the largest support and representation organisation for homosexual woman, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people and their families in Northern Ireland, has organised a demonstration against the Chechen government’s creation of concentration camps for gay men.
Reports from Human Rights Survey and the independent Novoya Gazeta possess confirmed that the Chechen government has commenced a programme of hunting down gay men, interning them in concentration camps and subjecting them to torture including sexual degradation. It has been reported that three of the victims have been murdered.
To protest against this extreme violation of human rights and to highlight the failure of the UK government to intervene, The Rainbow Project has organised a demonstration to be held at Belfast City Hall on Friday 14th April at 5.30pm.
Speaking ahead of the demonstration, John O’Doherty, Director of The Rainbow Project, said: ‘There has been widespread state-sponsored intimidation, discrimination and violence against LGBT within the Russian Federation for many years but this action by the Russian republic of Chechn