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Escape or die: The deadly crackdown on LGBTQ+ lives in Dagestan
Only one of the police officers was in uniform, and after exhibiting his ID, he told Yusuf, who is using an alias, that he had to proceed with them to the police station.
“I didn’t understand what was going on. I didn’t battle back or scream for help because my relatives could hear me. They drove me from Izberbash to Mahachkala.”
Dagestan is part of the North Caucasus region in southern Russia. Part of the region is Chechnya, a semi-autonomous republic notorious for the violent persecution of LGBT people, with neighbouring republics such as Dagestan and Ingushetia not fairing any better.
In the police station, they interrogated Yusuf, asking him if he knew ‘Matvey.’ Matvey Volodin – a gay blogger from Moscow – was allegedly lured by police in Dagestan and forced to ‘honeytrap’ lgbtq+ men in Dagestan for the police to arrest. “I said that I knew nothing about him. I hadn’t met him or contacted him online. I said that I had only heard that specify from friends,” said Yusuf.
They then began asking about his friends - how he met them and how lengthy he had recognizable them. They made him unlock his phone and scroll throu
New Report Documents Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Crimes Against Humanity in Chechnya
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — America’s largest female homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization — responded to a new report released by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) documenting horrific anti-LGBTQ crimes against humanity in the Russian republic of Chechnya that first made headlines in April 2017. Refuting denials from Chechen and Russian authorities, the report details the systematic torture, abuse and murder of LGBTQ people.
The report was authorized by 16 OSCE countries last month in order to investigate the human rights abuses and the Russian government’s failure to respond. It clearly states that there is “overwhelming evidence that there have been grave violations of the rights of LGBTI persons in the Chechen Republic,” while also citing gruesome personal stories from victims of the Chechen regime’s cruelty. The report also calls on Russia to establish a special investigative committee to “undertake an effective, impartial and transparent investigation of the allegations&
'Any day you can be taken': Inside what it's like to be homosexual in Chechnya
GROZNY, Russia -- Ricky said he had known the man who betrayed him for 10 years.
He was 19 and for most of his life he had lived a relatively sheltered being near Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the autonomous republic in southern Russia. Ricky-- a pseudonym-- had known he was queer since his early teens but had almost never dated. His relationships were mostly restricted to a tiny circle of friends who had discovered their sexuality together as they grew up. He was careful, he would normally only meet people 3 or 4 times a-year.
Then one day the police arrived at his work.
"The first day they took me and locked me in the cell in our city police station," Ricky said. "Then they took me to another place." After that, the torture began.
"At first, they were just beating me. They punched me and then they hit me with electric shock. They did waterboarding, which was the worst," Ricky told ABC News in a recent interview.
The police had discovered Ricky because of one his friends. They confronted him with a video passed to them by the friend that showed them together, discussing
Gay men flee persecution in Chechnya
"For the majority of these men, this persecution was unexpected. And now they don't have any coins, they've lost their jobs, their families, their official documents, everything," says Tatyana Vinnichenko. "So they come to us for help."
Vinnichenko is the chairperson of the Russian LGBT Network. She says that as of Monday morning, 59 men are inquiring the organization's support. They had to leave the southern Russian Republic of Chechnya because they were being persecuted for their sexual orientation.
At the starting of April, the Russian newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reported that over one hundred men were arrested for being same-sex attracted or bisexual in Chechnya. It says at least three of them were killed. Several Western media outlets hold since reported about beatings, torture and electric shocks the men were subjected to in police custody, as Chechen authorities tried to get them to admit to their sexual orientation and to hand over the names of gay acquaintances.
Vinnichenko says it's hard to say how many were really affected by what has been called an anti-gay purge, but it could be hundreds. Some of them got in touch with the LGTB network, whi
One Year After the Anti-Gay Purge in Chechnya
One year after the first reports about the anti-gay purge in the Chechen Republic were published, RFSL (Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights) and Civil Rights Defenders urge the Russian authorities to properly investigate the grave human rights violations committed against LGBT people in the republic of Chechnya by Chechen rule enforcement agencies in 2017 and up to this day.
Almost a year passed since the Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, broke the story of unlawful detentions and torture of LGBT people in Russia’s Chechen republic. The survivor testimonies collected by Novaya Gazeta, Russian LGBT Network and Human Rights Watch, described the horrors of unlawful kidnappings and imprisonment, cases of blackmail and coercion, outings to the family (leading to more violence), brutal torture (both psychological and physical) and even several alleged murders – all perpetrated by Chechen law enforcement agencies and families of the victims.
Throughout 2017 the Russian LGBT Network received over 170 requests for help and managed to relocate 106 members of LGBT community to protected houses. A majority of the survivors (88)