Outright Action International, ‘Gay Purge in Chechnya, Perpetrators Remain Unprosecuted’, 2018
- Category: Other
- Source: Other
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Refugee/Asylum, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: Europe
- Year: 2018
- File: One Year Since Gay Purge in Chechnya, Perpetrators Remain Unprosecuted
- URL: https://www.outrightinternational.org/content/one-year-gay-purge-chechnya-perpetrators-remain-unprosecuted
Outright Action International, ‘One year since Gay Purge in Chechnya, Perpetrators Remain Unprosecuted’, 10 April 2018
Abstract
At the beginning of April 2017, Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper, broke the news that more than 100 men perceived to be gay or bisexual were rounded up, sent to secret detention centers, and tortured in Chechnya. Reports since then have estimated that more than 20 men were murdered or died while in detention and the number of those detained could be as high as 200.