Cenk Uygur
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Gay Concentration Camps Reported In Chechnya
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April 13, 2017
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9:05Now PlayingThe Chechen government is ghosting gay people off the streets, taking them to torture camps and killing them. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Jayar Jackson, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"International human rights activists are decrying reports that at least 100 gay men have been arrested, and three killed, in the Russian region of Chechnya.
A Moscow-owned Russian opposition newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, cited claims by federal law enforcement officials who said the men, ranging in ages from 16 to 50, were detained “in connection with their nontraditional sexual orientation, or suspicion of such.” Those arrests apparently began when a local LGBTQ rights group, GayRussia.ru, applied for pride parade permits, which were immediately denied, The Independent reported April 3.
The reports, however, were quickly dismissed as “absolute lies and disinformation” by a spokesman for Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. The spokesman, Alvi Karimov, then suggested that no gay people were living in the Muslim-majority region. “You cannot arrest or repress people who just don’t exist in the republic,” he said, according to The New York Times.”*
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