Chechnya Gay Rights

• Toronto charity helping persecuted LGBTQ community in Chechnya

  Rainbow Railroad is calling on the Canadian government to facilitate emergency visas for people fleeing persecution based on their sexual orientation.

  World

  Apr 28, 2017
  
• Canada should offer emergency visas to gay men from Chechnya: LGBT group

  Dozens of Chechen men have been reported to be imprisoned and tortured because they are believed to be gay.

  Canada

  Apr 20, 2017
  
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• Londoners protest gay ‘concentration camps’, anti-LGBTQ violence in Chechnya

  Hundreds of people gathered outside the Russian embassy in London on Wednesday to protest after reports from human rights groups that up to 100 gay men are being held and tortured in "camps" in Russia's southern region of Chechnya.

  Politics

  Apr 12, 2017
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• Chechnya police arrest 100 men suspected of being gay, 3 killed: report

  Police in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya have rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least three have been killed, a Russian newspaper says.

  World

  Apr 2, 2017