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In April 2017, a panel of five experts that advises the United Nations Human Rights Council called on Chechnya to "put an end to the persecution of people perceived to be gay or bisexual in the Chechen Republic who are living in a climate of fear fueled by homophobic speeches by local authorities"; [30] the same month, the director of the human ...
Chechnya is a highly conservative Islamic society in which homophobia is widespread and homosexuality is taboo. [7] Following two separatist armed conflicts in the 1990s—the First Chechen War and the Second Chechen War—Chechnya "became increasingly conservative" under the leadership of President Akhmad Kadyrov and his son Ramzan Kadyrov, who is the head of the Chechen Republic. [9]
The film centers on the anti-gay purges in Chechnya of the late 2010s, filming LGBT Chechen refugees using hidden cameras as they made their way out of Russia through a network of safehouses aided by activists. [1] It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020 and was released on June 30, 2020, by HBO Films.
Alarming reports have emerged that many gay men have been detained and tortured in secret prisons in the anti-LGBT country of Chechnya.
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.
Gay people also face extrajudicial killings by state and non-state actors in some states and regions of the world. Locations where this is known to occur include Iraq, Libya, Syria, the Chechnya region of Russia, and the United States. Imposition of the death penalty for homosexuality may be classified as judicial murder of gay people.
Tushayev is a close confidant of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Head of the Chechen Republic, and one of Kadyrov's three senior advisers. Tushayev was personally congratulated by Kadyrov on his 34th birthday. [14] [19] Tushayev was also one of the key executors of the anti-gay purges in Chechnya.
While Chechnya, a conservative Muslim-majority republic in the North Caucasus, has remained part of Russia after it waged two brutal wars for independence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has ...