'Around 40 people have been detained and another two killed in the latest crackdown on Chechnya's LGBT community, Russian activists say. The "new wave of persecution" started at the end of December, the Russian LGBT Network say in a statement on Monday.
Authorities detained an administrator of a social media group on Russia's VKontakte, where homosexual men from the North Caucasus communicated, the network says. Mass detentions began after authorities accessed the administrator's contacts through his phone, according to The Associated Press.
The Russian LGBT Network says it learned of the situation in the beginning of January.
Authorities in Chechnya — a southwestern republic in Russia known for being conservative and predominantly Muslim — have denied targeting the LGBT community.
Ramzan Kadyrov, its leader, told the Interfax news agency in 2017 that gay people simply do not exist: "In Chechen society, there is no such thing as nontraditional orientation," he said.
The Russian LGBT Network says authorities are "unwilling not only to stop the persecution, but also to acknowledge the fact of illegal detentions, tortures and killings of LGBT people in Chechnya."
The group says it has relocated 150 people who were living in danger. Still, local police make "every effort to prevent victims from leaving the region or applying to the courts in the future," says the group's head, Igor Kochetkov.
"They take away documents, they [threaten] the victims with the criminal proceedings against them or their close ones, and they force them to sign empty forms," he said.
Attacks on gay people in Chechnya aren't new.
In 2017, Chechen police and military officials rounded up men they suspected of being gay, tortured them with electric devices and encouraged family members to engage in honor killings, according to The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
It released a report on human rights violations in Russia last month.
One witness said that police officers told relatives, "Either you kill your kid or we will do it for you."
Women and girls have also been detained, beaten, raped and killed, the report stated.
"I was kidnapped and kept for 12 days in a basement," a victim told NPR in 2017. His identity was not disclosed because although he was then living in Moscow, he feared for his life. He said he was interrogated, physically abused and forced to contact a person he was dating. Authorities "put a black plastic bag over my head and put a gun to my head," he said. "They made me call the other guy and tell him to come the car. Then they kidnapped him as well."
Other Chechens who fled told NPR last year that secret police force gay men into outing their friends. "The police electrocuted my friends, beat them, denied them food and water," said a 25-year-old whose name was not revealed for protection.
Some members of the LGBT community have sought asylum, but as NPR's Joanna Kakissis has reported, details on their experience aren't easy to find: In the Netherlands, the Immigration and Naturalization Service doesn't register the sexual orientation of people seeking asylum, making it difficult to determine how many LGBT asylum-seekers have been rejected.
Anonymous members of online groups catering to the LGBT community are urging people in the area to delete information from their phones, change their numbers and destroy their devices, Russian news site Meduza reported.'
"A bisexual man was tortured after trying to get evidence of the anti-LGBTI purge in Chechnya. Elbrus, a 32-year-old from Russia, fled after being kidnapped, tortured, threatened and blackmailed. He is one of the survivors of the ongoing persecution of LGBTI people in Chechnya.
LGBTI people are being rounded up, detained, tortured and executed in Chechnya. The ‘gay purge’ has been happening periodically since the end of 2016.
Chechen authorities have targeted human rights defenders, their critics and LGBTI people. Since 2016 hundreds of people have been detained, with many of those executed. The authorities even tortured several LGBTI detainees to death. [...]
‘We found terrible burials, graves, filmed it all on video,’ he said. [...]
On 28 May, officers found Elbrus and kidnapped him. It was there he was tortured, threatened and blackmailed – demanding he delete all evidence he discovered in Chechnya."
'Police have detained a citizen of Chechnya on suspicion of practicing witchcraft. Representatives of priesthood took part in the detention, reports Kavkazsky uzel.
On September 11, Grozny TV-channel broadcasted a story about a local Sekinat Ibragimova who had been detained upon entering Nadterechny district from Mozdok. The law enforcement theory is that she had been providing magical services for 6 years. The web site of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chechnya does not feature this information, so far.
Locks, keys, soil from cemeteries, papers with unclear notes, and photos of people with names and requests were seized from her. Police believe these items characterize those who practice magic.
The story lays stress on a role of head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov in fighting sorcerers and witches. “Upon the initiative of Ramzan Kadyrov, it’s been for more than a year since the anti-witches raids have been carried out,” the TV-host said.'
see what happens when you make fake screenshots about people
post by LOL at May 18,2020 5:39pm
LOL You actually searched back for a thread that hasn't been touched in over 8 months just to post that? Talk about making shit up for attention, LOL
"HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEE!" lol
Is this the one about transgender cops mailing out fake summonses instead of delivering them in hand to people all over the globe for a huge international court case to take place at the Hague?
the Ascension County sheriff's office is looking for you
post by grandmotherweb at May 18,2020 7:22pm edited May 18,2020 7:24pm
the Holden Police would also like a word with you for providing them with the wrong address for me, not to mention all those fake screenshots you made.
the Ascension County sheriff's office is looking for you
For me? Where is Ascension County? Will I need a plane ticket to get there? Secondly, Ascension is a Parish, not a county (I looked it up on Google). I live here in New England.
I called him from my home here in New England. I actually called him from O'Donovan's down in the square. I was drinking a nice Bushmills chased by a Naragansett. I then had some peebers guy, and hit a Dunks on the way home. You're an idiot, crazy cat lady.
I am not DTX. You are DTX (whoever the fuck that is). You need some serious medication. You have to realize that no court would ever believe you if they saw your posts. You allegations against the world would be found "not credible" based upon your admissions of mental illness and your obvious instability. I can see a judge rolling his eyes now, thanking God that he gets paid to do this shit (while the Police simultaneously roll their eyes knowing that your case is the stupedist thing they're heard all day, and the first words out of their mouths when they get home is, "Honey, you won't believe this shit..."
post by DTX is grandmotherweb at May 19,2020 4:09pm
There I said it.
post by Alice Peterson at May 19,2020 5:27pm
Loser leech kicked out of burner community in New England and has been a laughing stock behind her back by her friends, who let me say she has treated with such high disrespect that she actually placed herself in the isolation she harbors today.
We are just happy she isn't a apart of our many positive, flourishing and meaningful communities that shape our strange and odd interests.
see what happens when you make fake screenshots about people
post by Moof LaBoof at May 19,2020 6:14pm
Are these the same "dirty cops" that you have filed complaint after complaint with? I'm sure that they were super willing to help you out. Especially if they saw this.
I can't wait to hear what Internal Affairs has to say about the fact that the police leak information about me to TurtleBoy
post by NH FOREVER at May 23,2020 11:30am
Oh cool! Another fancy conspiracy theory! Tell me more!!
post by NH FOREVER at May 23,2020 11:31am
Was it the Lieutenant whose phone call you listened in on?
post by grandmotherweb at May 23,2020 11:40am edited May 23,2020 11:41am
you mean Lieutenant Myers of the Ascension parish sheriff's office who served you with a restraining order:
"I'm about to break down your door, I've been banging on it so much."
post by NH FOREVER at May 23,2020 10:16pm
I'm noy dtx....but fuck yeah. Hope it's a no-knock warrant. Come out with your hands up!!!! You haZ offended a tranvestite from Mass.....man is this shit rich. HAHAHAHAHA
post by NH FOREVER at May 23,2020 10:17pm
Holy shit this is almost as funny as you attempting to sing. Hope your fire blowing is better than your singing voice.
'Around 40 people have been detained and another two killed in the latest crackdown on Chechnya's LGBT community, Russian activists say. The "new wave of persecution" started at the end of December, the Russian LGBT Network say in a statement on Monday.
Authorities detained an administrator of a social media group on Russia's VKontakte, where homosexual men from the North Caucasus communicated, the network says. Mass detentions began after authorities accessed the administrator's contacts through his phone, according to The Associated Press.
The Russian LGBT Network says it learned of the situation in the beginning of January.
Authorities in Chechnya — a southwestern republic in Russia known for being conservative and predominantly Muslim — have denied targeting the LGBT community.
Ramzan Kadyrov, its leader, told the Interfax news agency in 2017 that gay people simply do not exist: "In Chechen society, there is no such thing as nontraditional orientation," he said.
The Russian LGBT Network says authorities are "unwilling not only to stop the persecution, but also to acknowledge the fact of illegal detentions, tortures and killings of LGBT people in Chechnya."
The group says it has relocated 150 people who were living in danger. Still, local police make "every effort to prevent victims from leaving the region or applying to the courts in the future," says the group's head, Igor Kochetkov.
"They take away documents, they [threaten] the victims with the criminal proceedings against them or their close ones, and they force them to sign empty forms," he said.
Attacks on gay people in Chechnya aren't new.
In 2017, Chechen police and military officials rounded up men they suspected of being gay, tortured them with electric devices and encouraged family members to engage in honor killings, according to The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
It released a report on human rights violations in Russia last month.
One witness said that police officers told relatives, "Either you kill your kid or we will do it for you."
Women and girls have also been detained, beaten, raped and killed, the report stated.
"I was kidnapped and kept for 12 days in a basement," a victim told NPR in 2017. His identity was not disclosed because although he was then living in Moscow, he feared for his life. He said he was interrogated, physically abused and forced to contact a person he was dating. Authorities "put a black plastic bag over my head and put a gun to my head," he said. "They made me call the other guy and tell him to come the car. Then they kidnapped him as well."
Other Chechens who fled told NPR last year that secret police force gay men into outing their friends. "The police electrocuted my friends, beat them, denied them food and water," said a 25-year-old whose name was not revealed for protection.
Some members of the LGBT community have sought asylum, but as NPR's Joanna Kakissis has reported, details on their experience aren't easy to find: In the Netherlands, the Immigration and Naturalization Service doesn't register the sexual orientation of people seeking asylum, making it difficult to determine how many LGBT asylum-seekers have been rejected.
Anonymous members of online groups catering to the LGBT community are urging people in the area to delete information from their phones, change their numbers and destroy their devices, Russian news site Meduza reported.'
"A bisexual man was tortured after trying to get evidence of the anti-LGBTI purge in Chechnya. Elbrus, a 32-year-old from Russia, fled after being kidnapped, tortured, threatened and blackmailed. He is one of the survivors of the ongoing persecution of LGBTI people in Chechnya.
LGBTI people are being rounded up, detained, tortured and executed in Chechnya. The ‘gay purge’ has been happening periodically since the end of 2016.
Chechen authorities have targeted human rights defenders, their critics and LGBTI people. Since 2016 hundreds of people have been detained, with many of those executed. The authorities even tortured several LGBTI detainees to death. [...]
‘We found terrible burials, graves, filmed it all on video,’ he said. [...]
On 28 May, officers found Elbrus and kidnapped him. It was there he was tortured, threatened and blackmailed – demanding he delete all evidence he discovered in Chechnya."