Tag: #ChechenPurge
A Second Wave in Chechnya’s “Gay Purges” • Instinct Magazine
Map of the Chechnya Region in southwestern Russia (image via WikiMedia Commons)
Six months after global media and human rights groups brought renewed focus on Chechnya, a semi-autonomous region in southwestern Russia with a lurid recent history of brutal anti-gay abuses, attention has returned to the area once again. Sadly, conditions have not improved – rather, recent reports have shed new light on the extent and ruthlessness of repression, which never went away.
The First “Gay Purge” and Global Backlash
In early-to-mid-2017,...
Bisexual Man Tortured After Finding Evidence of Anti-Gay Purge • Instinct Magazine
Being an openly LGBTQ person in Chechnya is risky as many people are subjected to great injustices because of their sexuality. Image via The Fight Mag.
A bisexual Russian man who has since fled to a safe country was subjected to torture because he attempted to find evidence of the anti-LGBTQ purge happening in Chechnya, according to Gay Star News.
LGBTQ people in Chechnya are being detained, beaten, and humiliated because of their sexuality and one man named Elbrus and his...
