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Anti-torture activist hospitalised after attack at his home in Russia

Igor Kaliapin is best known in Russia for founding the NGO Team Against Torture and was appointed to the Kremlin s Human Rights Council. ....

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Chechen Police 'Kidnap' Two Brothers in Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown


Chechen Police ‘Kidnap’ Two Brothers in Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown
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MOSCOW The Islamist insurgency in Chechnya was crushed long ago, but the harsh security services apparatus remained in place. Police routinely round up gay men, and reports of torture are well documented.
In a new development, these police have now arrested ethnic Chechen gay men far from Chechnya. Security agents detained two brothers, 17-year-old Ismail Isayev and 20-year-old Salekh Magomadov, in a shelter in Nizhny Novgorod in central Russia earlier this month. The two brothers were active on social media, and posted LGBTQ and Pride symbols. ....

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