Chechnya

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Attempted abduction of gay Chechen refugee in St. Petersburg
Young participant at Coming Out's rally for LGBT* rights holds a sign that states "Let's Live in Peace." (Photo courtesy of Coming Out)
Russia: 150 attend LGBT rally despite hurdles and bans
A Cameroonian police officer belonging to the Gendarmerie Nationale Camerounaise.
Homophobes of the Week: Cameroon’s baton-swinging police
Learning about exorcisms on YouTube (Photo courtesy of BBC)
Lesbian endures Islamic exorcism, flees from Chechnya
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$5,500 per rescue from Chechnya, and more is needed
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov denied the mass arrests of gay citizens, saying that "such people do not exist." (Photo courtesy of ABC News)
Europe demands probe of mass arrests in Chechnya
The display of a rainbow flag at a September concert in Cairo triggered a new round of anti-LGBT arrests in Egypt's ongoing crackdown on LGBT people and many others who are targets of the Abdel Fattah el-Sisi regime. (Photo courtesy of Rainbow Egypt via Facebook)
Revisiting horrors of 2017 in hopes of ending them
Maxim Lapunov addresses Moscow press conference (Photo courtesy of Novaya Gazeta)
Eyewitness describes horrors of anti-LGBT Chechen purge
Chechen singer vanishes; victim of anti-gay purge?
Map shows locations of recent anti-LGBT crackdowns -- in Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and Tanzania; at the border of southeastern Europe and western Asia, Chechnya and Azerbaijan; in central Asia, Tajikistan; and in Asia/Oceania, Indonesia.
7 anti-LGBT purges: We can stop them?
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov (Photo courtesy of ABC News)
Chechnya’s long arm of retaliation against gay men
Kimahli Powell, executive director of Rainbow Railroad (Photo courtesy of Daily Xtra)
Canada welcomes 22 to 31 gay Chechen refugees
Death toll from anti-gay Chechen purge rises to 27?
Many bash Russia for Chechen abuses; few help gay victims
Chechnya's anti-gay crackdown resumes, activist says
$300,000 to rescue LGBT Chechens; next event: Hong Kong