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Chechen Police ‘Kidnap’ Two Brothers in Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown Anna Nemtsova © Provided by The Daily Beast Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images MOSCOW — The Islamist insurgency in Chechnya was crushed long ago, but the harsh security services apparatus remained in place. Police routinely round up gay men, and reports of torture are well documented. In a new development, these police have now arrested ethnic Chechen gay men far from Chechnya. Security agents detained two brothers, 17-year-old Ismail Isayev and 20-year-old Salekh Magomadov, in a shelter in Nizhny ...

The kidnap of two young men has again raised international concerns about the treatment of gay men in Chechnya, reports Oliver Carroll in Moscow

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn The disappearance highlights ongoing persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya. • 8 min read LGBT people in Chechnya fear brutal persecution at the hands of government: Part 1 In Chechnya, LGBT people share their stories of being abducted and tortured, often hiding their sexuality from their own family. The police say the idea that gay people exist in Chechnya is an insult.Vladimir Smirnov/TASS via Getty Images, FILE A Russian LGBT rights group says two young men it helped escape Chechnya have been kidnapped fro...