Inside Chechnya's gulag for gay men – POLITICO
People suspected of being LGBTQ+ face shakedowns, torture, or being ‘volunteered’ to fight in Ukraine, rights groups say.
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People suspected of being LGBTQ+ face shakedowns, torture, or being ‘volunteered’ to fight in Ukraine, rights groups say.
Elina Ukhmanova, a 20-year-old physics student from Russia's Muslim-majority Daghestan region, is in hiding from her relatives. She says she ran away for the third time after spending months in a dubious rehab center undergoing "treatment" for atheism and bisexuality.
A push by Russian lawmakers to more firmly restrict the public discussion of LGBTQ lives and issues will further isolate a community that faces ongoing peril, advocates say.
A court in Chechnya has sentenced a pair of LGBT+ siblings to almost a decade behind bars on seemingly bogus charges.