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Persecution of gay men in Chechnya: news, statements and analysis

3 May 2017

They Have Long Arms and They Can Find Me’: Anti-Gay Purge by Local Authorities in Russia’s Chechen Republic – Human RIghts Watch report

News Update: LGBT homicide in Chechnya- Russian LGBT Network

End abuse and detention of gay men in Chechnya, UN human rights experts tell Russia – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Equal Rights Coalition statement on situation in Chechnya

Stop Anti-Gay Attacks in Chechnya – Human Rights Watch

Stop Anti-Gay Attacks in Chechnya (video) – Human Rights Watch

Chechnya: Stop Abducting and Killing Gay Men – Amnesty International

Russian Federation: Men suspected gay abducted, tortured or killed – Amnesty International

As Gay Men are Detained and Killed in Chechnya, the Kremlin is Slow to Respond – Human Rights Watch

Meet the journalist who exposed Chechnya’s anti-gay purge – Dazed

Putin Will Be Forced to Act on Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge – Moscow Times

Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Pogrom – New York Times

Chileans turn up in pink triangles to protest Chechnya’s gay concentration camps – Santiago Times

Embassies of three European countries expedite visa issuing in light of persecution – Meduza