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$100 million for gay purge victims as PM apologizes for LGBTQ discrimination
Compensation comes after former federal government employees launched class-action lawsuit
The Trudeau government has earmarked more than $100 million to compensate members of the military and other federal agencies whose careers were sidelined or ended due to their sexual orientation, The Canadian Press has learned.
The money will be paid out as part of a class-action lawsuit settlement to employees who were investigated, sanctioned and sometimes fired as part of the so-called gay purge.
An agreement in principle in the court action...
Man Who Survived Chechnya’s ‘Gay Purge’ Shares His Harrowing Story
A man who miraculously survived Chechnya's relentless anti-gay campaign has stepped forward to share his horrific, distressing story.
For 12 days, Maxim Lapunov said he was held captive in a blood-soaked cell, beaten, threatened, and humiliated by authorities.
The 30-year-old man, originally from Siberia, had been living and working in Chechnya for two years. Then, one night in March, he says he was kidnapped by two men in a car.
By his account, he had been taken to a police facility, where...
Donald Trump’s White House has finally spoken out against the gay purge in Chechnya
Donald Trump’s administration has finally spoken out against Chechnya’s persecution of gay men.
In an interview which aired on HBO yesterday, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov called gay people the “devil” and once again denied reports of the gay purge in the region.
The leader added that if there were any gay people – who he emphasised were “not people” – living in the region, they should move to Canada.
US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that her department found these comments...
Chechnya: Names of 27 men slaughtered and buried in bloody night revealed as gay...
The names of 27 people slaughtered in a single night by Chechen authorities have been published.
The secret mass execution is thought to have seen up to 56 people killed – all without trial.
Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper based in the region, has published the list of names it claims President Ramzan Kadyrov’s government killed.
The executions were all carried out in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, on the night of 25 January, the newspaper claims.
According to the strongly anti-Putin publication, mass arrests and...
