Tag: purge
A year after the anti-gay purge in Chechnya, here’s what you can do to...
One year ago this week, news broke of a wave of terrifying, state-sponsored violence in Chechnya against men perceived to be gay or bisexual.
In scenes that would not have been out of place in Nazi Germany, innocent men were rounded up by state militia and removed to illegal detention centres.
Men like Maxim Lapunov who spent 12 days in a blood-soaked cell just because he is gay, but who today is bravely speaking out for justice. Men like the pop...
