Chechnya
ECHR upholds Novaya Gazeta's complaint against threats by Chechen officials
The threats were made over Novaya Gazeta’s coverage of anti-gay purges in Chechnya.
Chechnya’s Anti-Gay Purge
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Armenia
Armenia grants asylum to queer Chechen
An Armenian court has granted asylum to a queer Chechen man, blocking his extradition to Russia. On Monday, Yerevan’s Administrative Court ruled in favour of granting 41-year-old Salman Mukayev, a Chechen native residing in Armenia, asylum. The court overruled the Migration Service’s decision to reject Mukayev’s 2021 asylum application on the grounds that his life would not be in danger in Russia outside of Chechnya. Mukayev was reportedly detained by the Russian authorities in Chechnya
Chechnya
Chechen man publishes video denying homosexuality following detention
Chechen Idris Arsamikov, who was last week reportedly detained in a Moscow airport, has published a video calling for ‘queers to stop defending [his] rights’. Rights organisations claim that the videos were made under duress. Arsamikov, 28, was reportedly detained at Domodedovo International Airport on 16 February, presumably while attempting to leave Russia. NC SOS Crisis Group, a queer rights organisation based in the North Caucasus, sent a lawyer to the airport to assist him and was info
Chechnya
Queer Chechen man reportedly detained at Moscow airport
A queer man who fled Chechnya due to his sexuality has reportedly been detained at Moscow airport and taken in an unknown direction. NC SOS Crisis Group, a queer rights organisation operating in the North Caucasus, reported Idris Arsamikov’s detention on Thursday. Arsamikov had been living in the Netherlands but returned to Russia for his father’s funeral. Whilst in Chechnya, the group said Arsamikov was detained and beaten before being released. According to NC SOS, Arsamikov was again d
Chechnya
Chechen reportedly abducted in Grozny for being queer
A Chechen man and two of his acquaintances have been abducted by the police because of their sexuality, local human rights activists have reported. On 25 July, footage emerged showing Rizvan Dadayev, a resident of Grozny, being interrogated by an unknown individual who coerces him into admitting that he ‘wanted to meet a guy for sex’. Igor Kochetkov, a human rights activist and former director of the Russian LGBT+ Network, said that Dadayev ‘may be in mortal danger’, citing the ‘numerous cas
Chechnya
Russian police ‘abduct gay Chechen brothers’ from safehouse in central Russia
Russian police have abducted two Chechen brothers in hiding in a safehouse in central Russia, activists report. According to the Russian LGBT Network, Ismail Isayev, 17, and Salekh Magamadov, 20, were taken on Thursday from a flat in Nizhny Novgorod. The group provided the flat to the men as a refuge from the ongoing persecution of suspected homosexuals in Chechnya. They were awaiting visas to flee the country. Nizhny Novgorod is a major city in Central Russia 1,900 kilometres away from C
Chechnya
Chechnya: No criminal charges in homophobic exorcism case
The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs has refused to open a criminal case into allegations by a woman that her relatives attempted violent exorcisms to change her sexual orientation. Aminat Lorsanova, 22, has said that while she was institutionalised in two separate treatment centres in 2018, family members forcibly sedated and beat her repeatedly as a form of gay conversion therapy. Veronika Lapina, a member of the Russian LGBT Network who is representing Lorsanova, told OC Media that t
