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HBO have released a trailer for the latest documentary from David France, the director behind The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. Activist and filmmaker David France’s latest work, Welcome To Chechnya, explores the state of LGBTIQ+ life in the republic, focusing on the torture and murder of LGBTIQ+ people and the activists risking their lives […]
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9 Jun 2020 /
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Chechen pop star Zelimkhan Bakaev has been missing since August 2017, and its long been believed that he was detained and possibly killed as part of Chechyna’s violent purge of gay men. The country’s leader has now accused the singer’s own family of murdering him, suggesting that they were ashamed of having a gay person […]
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22 Jan 2018 |
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US broadcaster MTV has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of reports that gay/bi men are being tortured and killed in Chechnya. Celebrities are using the hashtag #EyesOnChechnya to mark 100 days since the initial report of the anti-gay violence, and calling on the White House to take action. We’ve known about gay men […]
Tags: chechen, Chechnya, jussie smollett, Mara Wilson, Novaya Gazeta, Ramzan Kadyrov, RuPaul, tituss burgess
20 Jul 2017 |
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Activists in Russia attempting to deliver a petition calling for an investigation into human rights abuses in The Chechen Republic were detained by authorities who deemed the delivery of the petition an “unauthorised protest”. The five Russian activists were attempting to deliver the petition with over two million signatures to the Prosecutor General’s Office in Moscow […]
Tags: All Out, Amnesty International, Avaaz, Bert Wanders, Chechen Republic, Denis Krivosheev, Julie Bishop, Malcolm Turnbull, Moscow, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia, Vladamir Putin
13 May 2017 |
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Reports have emerged from Chechnya that allege the region’s police are instructing parents to kill their gay children. The allegations come from a man who reportedly survived what has been described as a “gay concentration camp”, where gay men are being held, tortured and even murdered. The survivor told media authorities are telling parents of […]
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4 May 2017 |
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has publicly declared that he aims to get rid of all gay people in Chechnya by the start of Ramadan. The Muslim holiday begins on May 26th and is widely celebrated in the Chechen region where the majority of the population are Muslim. Britain’s Deputy Foreign Secretary, Sir Alan Duncan, revealed […]
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22 Apr 2017 |
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Chechen men who are in hiding after being allegedly detained by authorities have spoken out about their ordeal. A Chechen man named Ruslan* has spoken to the BBC about his recent experiences in the Chechen Republic, an autonomous region of Russia. The man said he had been questioned by authorities in his home, and then […]
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22 Apr 2017 |
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has reportedly denied any homosexual people have been arrested and detained in The Chechen Republic. Newspapers in Russia have reported that they leader of the autonomous region denied the accusations of arrest, torture and murder during an exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Provocative articles about Chechnya (have) reported so-called arrests,” […]
Tags: arrest, Boris Johnson, Chechnya, Julie Bishop, murder, Nikki Halley, Ramzan Kadyrov, The Chechen Republic, torture, Vladimir Putin
20 Apr 2017 |
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Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has raised concern over the report that 100 men in The Chechen Republic have been detained because of their sexuality. Reports were first published in Russian media at the beginning of the month. The initial reports suggest that more than 100 men have been rounded up and held at several […]
Tags: Alvi Karimov, Amnesty International, arrest, Boris Johnson, Chechen Republic, Chechnya, detention, gay, Hannah Wahlsten, Julie Bishop, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, murder, queer, Ramzan Kadyrov, Rex Tillerson, Tim Wilson, torture
14 Apr 2017 |
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Gay men in the Russian region of The Chechen Republic are fleeing as authorities reportedly round up people who are gay, or perceived to be gay. Men are allegedly being held in an detention facility in the town of Argun, 20kn from Grozy, the capital of the Chechen Republic. The facilities has been described in […]
Tags: Alvi Karimov, Amnesty International, Antonio Tajan, Argun, Chechen Republic, Chechnya, detained, gay, Grozny, LGBT, LGBTI, LGBTIQ, murder, Natalia Poplevskaya, Novaya Gazeta, Pride in London, Protest, queer, Ramzan Kadyrov, Russia, Steve Taylor, torture, uropean Pride Organisers Association
12 Apr 2017 |
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