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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...n-kadyrov-chechen-russia-region-a7677901.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rison-beatings-electric-shocks-anti-gay-purge
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Gay men are being held in "camps" in the Chechen Republic where they are subjected to torture and beatings, human rights campaigners have claimed.
The claims follow reports last week that 100 gay men had been rounded up and imprisoned in Chechnya, with at least three people allegedly murdered. The allegations were made by a Russian newspaper and human rights campaigners. "In Chechnya, the command was given for a 'prophylactic sweep' and it went as far as real murders," independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta claimed.
At the time, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's spokesperson denied the claims on the grounds that no one in Chechnya is homosexual. "You cannot arrest or repress people who just don't exist in the republic," spokesman Alvi Karimov told Interfax.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...rison-beatings-electric-shocks-anti-gay-purge
At least once a day, Adam's captors attached metal clamps to his fingers and toes. One of the men then cranked a handle on a machine to which the clamps were linked with wires, and sent powerful electric shocks through his body. If he managed not to scream, others would join in, beating him with wooden sticks or metal rods.
As they tortured him, the men shouted verbal abuse at him for being gay, and demanded to know the names of other gay men he knew in Chechnya. "Sometimes they were trying to get information from me; other times they were just amusing themselves," he said, speaking about the ordeal he underwent just a month ago with some difficulty.
Adam's testimony, as well as that of another gay Chechen man with whom the Guardian spoke, backs up reports that a shocking anti-gay campaign is under way in the Russian republic of Chechnya, involving over a hundred and possibly several hundred men. Some are believed to have been killed.
Christ almighty.
Is there any way to help? Will this be intervened with at all?