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• LGBT+ Russie & co.

  Russia: LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge

  11 May, by LUHN Alec

  Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic.
  Five LGBT activists were detained in Moscow on Thursday while trying to submit a petition signed by two million people calling for an (...)

• LGBT+ Russie & co.

  Chechen police ’have rounded up more than 100 suspected gay men’

  2 May, by WALKER Shaun

  Russian newspaper says it has evidence that at least three men have been killed in ‘prophylactic sweep’ in Chechnya.
  Authorities in the Russian republic of Chechnya have launched an anti-gay campaign that has led to authorities rounding up dozens of men suspected of being homosexual, according (...)

• LGBT+ Russie & co.

  Chechens tell of prison beatings and electric shocks in anti-gay purge: ‘They called us animals’

  14 April, by WALKER Shaun

  Up to several hundred gay men are feared to have been rounded up and some killed in ultra-conservative Russian republic.
  At least once a day, Adam’s captors attached metal clamps to his fingers and toes. One of the men then cranked a handle on a machine to which the clamps were linked with (...)

• LGBT+ Russie & co.

  Russia passes law banning gay ’propaganda’

  11 June 2013, by ELDER Miriam

  Law will make it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships and to distribute gay rights material.
  Russia’s parliament has unanimously passed a federal law banning gay “propaganda” amid a Kremlin push to enshrine deeply conservative values that critics say has already led to a sharp (...)