LGBTQ rights in Chechnya
Chechnya returned to direct Russian rule in , formally complying with its federal laws and human right statutes. [34][35] De facto, it retains some autonomy, and the current Head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, "has brought Islam to the fore of Chechnya's daily life, and gay people who reveal their sexuality are often discriminated. Chechnya is ruled under a conservative Muslim ideology, controlled by the iron fist of its leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. Kadyrov, who loves to both deny that LGBTQ people exist within Chechnya and also comment they should be wiped out of the region to keep Chechnya pure, professes a blind allegiance to Putin.
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Today, the European Court of Human Rights handed down a ruling in the case of Maxim Lapunov, the only victim of Chechnya’s vile anti-gay purge who dared seek justice for the torture he. Rizvan Dadayev was detained in the summer of after a video circulated online where local extortionists forced him to admit he is gay, SK SOS told The Moscow Times. He had not been heard from since. 
Russia forces Chechen gay men to fight in Ukraine, crisis
Inside Chechnya’s gulag for gay men People suspected of being LGBTQ+ face shakedowns, torture, or being ‘volunteered’ to fight in Ukraine, rights groups say. The purge involved forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the police, military and state actors. When we first heard about the anti-gay purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya, we immediately started working with the Russian LGBT Network to identify individuals who were targeted.
The brutal persecution of LGBTQ in Chechnya
From to alone, Chechen security forces arrested more than people, took them to prison and tortured them. Most of them were gay or bisexual men. ECCHR and Russian LGBT Network submitted a criminal complaint in Germany. The group has been monitoring alleged abuses in the mainly Muslim Russian republic since when dozens of gay people were reportedly detained. A government spokesman has dismissed their latest report as "complete lies". Setting the Record Straight on Chechnya’s Anti
The Russian LGBT Network, an activist group, has been monitoring the situation in Chechnya and working to evacuate people from the region since reports of the crackdown emerged in Lapunov took his case to the European Court in May because the Russian authorities had failed to investigate his assault. I first met Lapunov nearly six years ago, when I moderated a news conference in Moscow at which he publicly told his story for the first time. Gay Chechen Man Flees Russia After Months of Police Abuse
April 1, , marks four years since the world at large was first made aware of Chechnya’s gay purge — atrocities committed against LGBTQ people within the Russian republic’s borders, a horrific, ongoing stratagem of abduction, detainment, torture and murder. Gradually rebuked by Western governments over the years as first-hand[ ]. . 
Chechnya’s Horrific ‘Gay Purge’
A gay Chechen man has fled Russia after spending months in police custody, where he faced abuse from law enforcement officials linked to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, the North Caucasus LGBTQ+. .
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When we first heard about the anti-gay purge in the Russian republic of Chechnya, we immediately started working with the Russian LGBT Network to identify individuals who were targeted. The purge involved forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by the police, military and state actors. .