The Russian LGBT Network said that Salek Magadamov and Ismail Isaev, who is under 18, were taken to the OMVD (interior ministry) in Gudermes on Saturday.The network says that last June it helped the couple escape the Chechen Republic, a Russian region where there have been many reports of people being persecuted for their sexual orientation.
This followed their detention and alleged torture in April, related to their work as moderators for the opposition Telegram channel Osal Nakh 95.Magadamov and Isaev were detained by police on Thursday last week in their apartment in Nizhny Novgorod, about 420 kilometres east of Moscow, the Russian LGBT Network said.