40 Arrested and Two Killed in New Attacks Against LGBT People in Chechnya

The authorities have started a new wave of detentions of LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network and Novaya Gazeta confirmed the information about illegal detentions of around 40 men and women, based on their actual or perceived homosexual orientation.

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40 Arrested and Two Killed in New Attacks Against LGBT People in Chechnya

  • News, Russia
  • January 16, 2019

The authorities have started a new wave of detentions of LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT N...

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  • January 9, 2019

This spring, the Swedish Parliament will vote to ratify the Political Dialogue and Cooperation Agree...

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It has been one year since Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechen office of Russian human rights group Mem...
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Independent Voices from Belarus

We recently met with Katerina Bakhvalova to learn more about the difficult situation for independent journalists in Belarus.

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