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artappraiser — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:34:53 +0000

In reply to Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses, Calling It an Extremist Group

‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya

by Andrew B. Kramer from Grozny for the NYTimes, April 21

[....] Gay men have never had an easy life in Chechnya. But the targeted, collective punishment of gays that began last month under its pro-Kremlin leader, Ramzan A. Kadyrov, is a new turn in the region’s long history of rights abuses.

Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, first reported the pogrom, saying that at least 100 gay men had been arrested and three killed in the roundup. Human Rights Watch corroborated those findings.

The sweep has been widely condemned by Western governments, the United Nations and rights groups. Activists in Russia have set up an underground network to spirit the victims out of Chechnya and to protect them from potentially violent reprisals from their families and others. The victims use assumed names in their everyday dealings.

The following account is based on interviews with Maksim, who is in his 20s, and two other gay men who were detained by Chechen security agents [....]

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