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  • 2018-02-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Alvi Karimov, press secretary to Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, responded to Amnesty International's annual report, which accused Chechen authorities of abusing the rights of local gay people.The report detailed state-sponsored discrimination against gays in Russia generally, and also gross abuses targeting gays in Chechnya​. Amnesty cited victim and eyewitness accounts of persecution, including the torture and murder of gay men in the Chechen capital Grozny and other parts of the republic,​ that were first published by the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta in April 2017.Amnesty International activists place flowers outside the Russian Consulate in protest against the persecution of gay men in Chechnya, in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 16, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Miguel SCHINCARIOLThe newspaper detailed the plight of more than 100 who were detained and the deaths of at least three Chechen men accused of being homosexual. According to the newspaper, the detentions followed a formal request made in March 2017 to hold a gay-parade, which sparked public protests in the republic, where the newspaper reports even an accusation of being gay can lead to execution.Chechen gay men who fled persecution in their home Russia's Muslim region of Chechnya due to his sexual-orientation, sits around a table in their flat in Moscow on April 17, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Naira DAVLASHYAN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Anais LLOBETFacing media coverage of the roundup of gays, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reported on the situation in the region to Vladimir Putin in late April 2017. He told the Russian president that the information about multiple arrests, torture and killings was a provocation." ​Young people take a photo in front of the Heart of Chechnya - Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque and large letters reading 'I love Grozny' in central Grozny on July 26 (en)
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