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Gay men Salek Magamadov and Ismail Isayev held in Chechnya
World

Gay torture victims held on terror charges in Chechnya without a shred of proof

Lily Wakefield - February 25, 2021

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of Chechnya
UK

UK government orders strict sanctions on top officials linked to Chechnya’s horrific ‘gay purge’

Emma Powys Maurice - December 15, 2020

Chechnya: Teen forced to commit self-rape for criticising Ramzan Kadyrov
World

Teenager forced to commit horrific act of self-rape on camera for criticising Chechnya’s ‘gay purge’ tyrant

Emma Powys Maurice - September 9, 2020

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Ramzan Kadyrov
World

Chechnya’s gay purge tyrant – who said COVID-19 patients ‘should be executed’ – mounts pathetic defence after ‘hospitalisation’

Emma Powys Maurice - May 28, 2020

Kadyrov
World

Chechen tyrant Ramzan Kadyrov, who led the brutal gay purges, ‘hospitalised with severe coronavirus’

Emma Powys Maurice - May 22, 2020

Film and TV

Gay survivor of homophobic purges in Chechnya receives standing ovation at Sundance Film Festival

Emma Powys Maurice - January 30, 2020

Chechnya gay purge
World

Journalist comes out to police chief in Chechnya who oversees the ‘gay purge’

Lily Wakefield - October 26, 2019

Chechnya protesters
Current Affairs

Chechnya ‘gay purge’ responders receive death threats after home invasion

Lydia Smith - May 31, 2019

Demonstrators lay roses on a rainbow flag as they protest over an alleged Chechnya anti-gay purge outside the Russian Embassy in London on June 2, 2017.
Current Affairs

Chechnya gay purge: LGBT people ‘sexually assaulted with electric shock sticks’

Lydia Smith - January 21, 2019

Kadyrov
Current Affairs

Chechnya leader banned from US under fresh sanctions amid anti-gay purge

Nick Duffy - December 20, 2017

Kadyrov
Current Affairs

Chechnya’s gay purge leader Ramzan Kadyrov is ‘ready’ to leave office

Josh Jackman - November 27, 2017

Gay-rights activists hold placards on February 14, 2011 during a rally against homophobia in Minsk. Gay rights activists said they held their first authorized action in Minsk. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
Current Affairs

Gay clubs raided and dating app shut down in ‘alarming’ crackdown on LGBT people in Belarus

Josh Jackman - October 25, 2017

UFA, RUSSIA - JULY 8: In this handout image supplied by Host Photo Agency / RIA Novosti, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon during a meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin during the BRICS/SCO Summits - Russia 2015 on July 08, 2015 in Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. (Photo by Iliya Pitalev/Host Photo Agency/Ria Novosti via Getty Images)
Current Affairs

Tajikistan has identified hundreds of gay and lesbian people for ‘Operation Purge’

Josh Jackman - October 18, 2017

Azerbaijan police at a protest
Current Affairs

This country ‘has the worst LGBT rights in Europe’

Mayer Nissim - October 6, 2017

Ramzan Kadyrov takes an oath
Current Affairs

Gay refugees fear being kidnapped and taken back to Chechnya

Mayer Nissim - October 5, 2017

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