Tag: evacuation
Human Rights Group Hopes to Evacuate Gay Men From Chechnya
A group is hoping to start a "rainbow railroad" from Chechnya to Canada.
A Canadian human rights organization that assists LGBT people in escaping places where they face persecution is launching a campaign to help gay men get out of Chechnya, the semiautonomous Russian republic where at least 100 gay men have been arrested and detained recently.
“Since we first received initial reports of gay concentration camps being established in Chechnya, Rainbow Railroad immediately re-classified Eastern Europe as a priority region,”...
