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<\/p>\nPolice in Chechnya Have Rounded Up at Least 100 Gay Men and are Killing Them<\/b><\/p>\n
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Police have\u00a0rounded up at least 100 gay<\/a> men<\/a> in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya and have killed at least three of them, according to media reports.<\/p>\n The NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n On Saturday, a leading Russian opposition newspaper confirmed a story already circulating among human rights activists: The Chechen authorities were arresting and killing gay<\/a> men<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2026The men<\/a> were detained \u201cin connection with their nontraditional sexual orientation, or suspicion of such,\u201d the newspaper, Novaya Gazeta<\/a>, reported, citing Russian federal law enforcement officials, who blamed the local authorities.<\/p>\n By Saturday, the paper reported, and an analyst of the region with her own sources confirmed, that more than 100 gay<\/a> men<\/a> had been detained. The newspaper had the names of three murder victims, and suspected many others had died in extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n Small LGBT protest in St. Petersburg after 100 gay<\/a> men<\/a> reportedly detained in Chechnya, 3 dead t.co\/107W3rznnw<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) April 2, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u041b\u0433\u0431\u0442 \u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0438\u0441\u0442\u044b \u043d\u0430 \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0441\u043e\u0432\u043e\u043c \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435 \u0437\u0430 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0443 \u0441\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u0442\u043e\u044f\u0442 pic.twitter.com\/dPKzSF5KrN<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 \u0410\u0440\u0441\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0439 \u0412\u0435\u0441\u043d\u0438\u043d (@ars_ves) April 2, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Guardian adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cIn Chechnya, the command was given for a \u2018prophylactic sweep\u2019 and it went as far as real murders,\u201d Novaya Gazeta reported.<\/p>\n The report was denied by the spokesman of the Chechen president, Ramzan Kadyrov, who suggested there were no gay<\/a> people in the Muslim-majority region.<\/p>\n Ali Karimov said, according to the state news agency RIA Novosti: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to persecute those who are not in the republic.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return,\u201d Karimov added.<\/p>\n The post Police in Chechnya Have Rounded Up at Least 100 Gay Men and are Killing Them<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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