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  2. Filtration camp system in Chechnya - Wikipedia

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    One of main, and the best known, filtration camps in Chechnya was the Chernokozovo detention center, set up in a former prison in 1999.Chernokozovo was subject of a significant attention in 2000, as well as at least two illegal detention and torture related rulings by the European Court of Human Rights (the cases of the Chitayev brothers in 2007 and of Zura Bitiyeva in 2008, the latter also ...

  3. Anti-gay purges in Chechnya - Wikipedia

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    The federal Russian LGBT laws apply in Chechnya, which is a part of the Russian Federation. However, in Chechnya, as in other regions of southern Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin "has empowered local leaders to enforce their interpretation of traditional values, partly in an effort to co-opt religious extremism, which has largely been ...

  4. Chernokozovo detention center - Wikipedia

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    The Soviet-era maximum-security penitentiary facility at Chernokozovo was closed down during the First Chechen War in December 1994. It was re-opened by the Russian federal forces during the Second Chechen War at the end of 1999, officially as a "temporary reception center for the persons detained on the grounds of vagrancy and begging".

  5. OSCE urges Russia to investigate reports gay men tortured in ...

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    One group says Russia must investigate reports that dozens of men are being held and tortured in Chechnya because they are believed to be gay. One group says Russia must investigate reports that ...

  6. What are Russian 'filtration camps'? [Video] - AOL

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    New details have emerged of how Russian soldiers have forcibly removed tens of thousands of Ukrainians from occupied areas and sent them to “filtration camps” for hours of intense ...

  7. Report: Gay men detained, tortured in 'concentration camps ...

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    Alarming reports have emerged that many gay men have been detained and tortured in secret prisons in the anti-LGBT country of Chechnya. Report: Gay men detained, tortured in 'concentration camps ...

  8. LGBT rights in Chechnya - Wikipedia

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    According to Novaya Gazeta, reports verified by the Russian LGBT Network, gay men were held at a secret prison in Argun, described in many sources as a concentration camp, where they were subjected to violence and torture. [40] [41] Chechen men who were detained in multiple detention centers report being beaten and tortured with electric shocks ...

  9. List of concentration and internment camps - Wikipedia

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    During the Second Chechen War, the Russian forces used the Chernokozovo internment camp as the main center of their filtration camp system in Chechnya from 1999 to 2003 to suppress Chechnya's independence movement. Tens of thousands of Chechens were arrested and detained in these camps.