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| 2 killed, 40 detained in new gay purge in Chechnya |
| 2019-01-15 |
| [APNEWS] The Russian republic of Chechnya has launched a new crackdown on gays in which at least two people have died and about 40 people have been detained, LGBT activists in Russia charged Monday. The new allegations come after reports in 2017 of more than 100 gay men tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and subjected to torture, and some of them killed, in the predominantly Moslem region in southern Russia. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named and other media outlets have interviewed some of the victims, who spoke about torture at the hands of Chechen law enforcement officers. Chechen authorities have denied those accusations, and federal authorities conducted a probe into the earlier reports but said they found nothing to support the charges. Alvi Karimov, a front man for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, told the Interfax news agency on Monday that the latest reports are "complete lies and don’t have an ounce of truth in them." Karimov insisted that no one has been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of being gay. |
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