Despite Ramzan Kadyrov's public rejection of mobilisation, the Chechen authorities have called up 564 men from various regions of Russia who applied for passports after mobilisation was announced in ...

Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks. "It's a feeling like they are breaking every ...

In the face of growing international concern about reported detentions and killings of gay men in Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says the Kremlin does not have confirmed ...

A Russian LGBT advocacy group on Monday confirmed a report that gay men in Chechnya have been sent to secret prisons. Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper, on April 4 reported gay men have been sent to ...

Since reports started coming nearly two weeks ago of authorities in Chechnya arresting and torturing men suspected of being gay, an advocacy group says it has received increasing pleas for help from ...

Chechen human rights group SK SOS has reported gay men in the Russian republic are being forcibly conscripted into Russia’s war with Ukraine. One man has died in the fighting. As reported in a ...

A month after reports emerged of gay Chechen men being rounded up and sent to a prison camp in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a group of men who say they are survivors of the camps ...

A police station in Chechnya – Photo: Lily Lin, via Wikimedia. Several men and women have been detained in Russia’s Chechnya region on suspicion of being gay, signaling yet another renewal of efforts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is forcibly conscripting men in Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, imprisoning those who refuse and threatening their families, ...