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The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Chechnya have long been a cause of concern for human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. As a member of the Russian Federation , Russia's LGBT laws formally apply.
The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT rights group, has called upon the U.S. to accept Chechen LGBT asylum-seekers and refugees, noting that "activists state that the U.S. has yet to accept a single Chechen refugee and some Russian advocates have been told that U.S. visas are out of reach for LGBTQ Chechens."
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.
Following the issuance of the report, the United Nations urged all countries which had not yet done so to enact laws protecting basic LGBT rights. [15] [16] A 2022 study found that LGBT rights (as measured by ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index) were correlated with less HIV/AIDS incidence among gay and bisexual men independently of risky sexual ...
According to the Daily Mirror, citing news from a Russian human rights organization, Tushayev was part of a group who terrorized LGBT people in Chechnya. This included the kidnapping, torture, and extrajudicial killing of dozens of men who were suspected to be gay .
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 ...