"They have long arms and they can find me" : anti-gay purge by local authorities in Russia's Chechen Republic.

[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, 2017.

©2017

HQ76.8.R8 L65 2017

Russia, "they have long arms and they can find me"

9781623134808 paperback
1623134803

i, 42 pages : color map, color illustrations ; 27 cm

(OCoLC)993730854

"Starting the last week of February [2017] and continuing until at least through the first week of April 2017, law enforcement and security officials in Russia's Chechen Republic conducted a purge of gay and bisexual men, abducting and then detaining them in secret locations, beating and humiliating them, and forcing them to hand over information about other men who might be gay. When they returned some of the men to their families, authorities encouraged relatives to conduct "honor killings." Most of those who have escaped Chechnya remain in danger elsewhere in Russia, with threats continuing against them and their relatives. ... Human Rights Watch documents the purge based on first-hand accounts of victims and civil society activists attempting to help them. ... With the Kremlin's tacit approval, [the Chechen leader, Ramzan] Kadyrov aims to control virtually all aspects of social life, including politics, religion, academic discourse and family matters. Human Rights Watch has called on Russian authorities to ensure that the investigations they have started into the anti-gay purge in Chechnya are effective and thorough and will ensure accountability of Chechen authorities for egregious human rights violations."--Back cover.

"May 2017"--Table of contents page.
"This report was researched and written by Tanya Lokshina, senior researcher and Russia program director with Human Rights Watch's Europe and Central Asia division."--Page 42.

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