The staff negotiations took place in line with this year's plan on the joint training of command and control bodies and forces and assets of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic and leader of the gay purge (Sasha Mordovets/Getty)
Five leaders of the horrifying Chechen “gay purge” could finally be charged with crimes against humanity thanks to a criminal case in Germany.
The five officials are within the inner circle of Chechnya’s autocratic leader Ramzan Kadyrov, according to
, and the charge sheet against them stretches 97 pages.
It accuses the Chechen military and state apparatus of persecution, unlawful arrests, torture, sexual violence and incitement to murder at least 150 individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation since February 2017.
The criminal case was submitted in February by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a German NGO, and the Russian LGBT Network, which has been instrumental in helping LGBT+ people flee the region.
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