The persecution of gays in Chechnya was invented by human rights activists, Kadyrov believes. Persecution and murder of gays in Chechnya: discussion on social networks A phenomenon not typical for the Chechen people

In Chechnya in different populated areas Mass detentions of men suspected of homosexuality are taking place, some of whom are killed, Novaya Gazeta reported today. In the Chechen special services, according to the publication, this is called a “preventive cleansing” in connection with the plans of LGBT activists to hold actions in the North Caucasus. The publication provoked a sharp reaction from the Chechen authorities, who stated that if there were gays in the region, their relatives would have dealt with them.

“Among the detainees are representatives of the Chechen muftiate, including well-known, influential religious figures close to the head of the republic, as well as two well-known Chechen TV presenters,” writes April 1 in his publication “Honor Killing” in Novaya Gazeta. Elena Milashina . - Of course, all these people in no way demonstrated their special sexual orientation - in the Caucasus this is tantamount to a death sentence. However, in traditional Chechen society, whose members have extremely short social distances, this kind of thing is quickly recognized, no matter how hard you hide it.”

These people in no way demonstrated their special sexual orientation - in the Caucasus this is tantamount to a death sentence

According to the publication, the detentions began after activists of the GayRussia movement announced their intention to hold gay pride parades in several cities of the Caucasus. During the mass persecution of men on suspicion of non-traditional sexual orientation, more than 100 people have already been detained, at least three of them were killed, writes the author of the publication with reference to "b unprecedented large number sources,” including the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB Directorate, the prosecutor’s office and the administration of the head of Chechnya.

“Residents of Chechnya who have become victims of persecution - even on mere suspicion of non-traditional sexual orientation - have extremely little chance of surviving,” Novaya Gazeta claims. “It is enough for the family to inform about the reason for the detention, and relatives will not file complaints with official authorities, and the facts of detention and even murder of their loved ones will be carefully concealed.”

In Chechnya they reacted sharply: there cannot be gays there

However, the press secretary of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov Alvi Karimov called Milashina’s publication “an absolute lie and disinformation” and “an attempt to denigrate the Chechen Republic.” “You cannot detain and oppress someone who simply is not in the republic,” Interfax quotes Karimov as saying. “If there were such people in Chechnya, law enforcement agencies would not have any worries with them, since their relatives themselves would send them to the address , from where they do not return."

The relatives themselves would send them to an address from which they do not return

He also pointed out that the publication does not indicate specific people, but only “certain sources.” “If in the law enforcement agencies of the republic - the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the prosecutor's office and so on - there are people who whisper something, afraid to identify themselves, they are not men, but an empty place,” Karimov said.

Member of the Council under the Head of Chechnya for Development civil society and human rights Kheda Saratova stated that the persecution of gay people is not condemned in Chechen society. According to her, " even if such a person is killed by his own relatives,” law enforcement agencies and the judicial system “will also treat with understanding what happened in this family,” reports “Moscow Speaks.” “They will not particularly rock the boat and defend this person. I haven’t received a single statement, but I wouldn’t even consider it,” she said.

Head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya Magomed Deniev , in turn, stated that he knew nothing about the arrests. “Maybe this is an April Fool’s joke? We did not give such information to Novaya Gazeta,” RBC quotes Deniev.

Failed LGBT actions in the Caucasus

The intensification of the protest mood regarding sexual minorities began in the North Caucasus in early March. The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that activists submitted notices of holding actions as part of the all-Russian LGBT action in a number of cities in southern Russia, including Nalchik, Stavropol, Cherkessk and Maykop. In these four cities, authorities refused to approve the protests.

On March 13, the initiators of the actions stated that they began to receive threatening messages and phone calls after submitting a notice to hold a march in support of the rights of the LGBT community in Nalchik. The action in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria was intended for 300 people, but the authorities refused to approve it, citing the event as “contradictory to the traditional family values ​​of the region’s residents.” The Investigative Committee is currently checking a complaint from the organizer of an LGBT rally in Nalchik regarding threats received.

Earlier, on December 1, 2016, Tomsk blogger Alexander Sidorov was attacked in Makhachkala, who held a one-man picket in defense of the rights of the LGBT community. The beaten blogger told the "Caucasian Knot" that the police they did not want to accept his statement about the attack and insulted him.

There can be nothing worse in our country than being gay in Chechnya. In any case, it’s hard for me to imagine anything worse. Gays live differently in Moscow, and not everyone will risk admitting their orientation. Just imagine something like this in Grozny! Well, unless this gay turns out to be an American agent, comes out with a sign for Navalny and calls Ramzan Kadyrov a bad word - then his life will become even more interesting.

The reaction of Kadyrov’s press secretary Alvi Karimov is curious. Karimov said simply and without any pretense: there are no gays in Chechnya. And it’s clear why he said that. Because for Karimov, a gay is the same as an American spy, a supporter of Navalny or an enemy of Kadyrov, running around the mountains with a machine gun.

Gay is a synonym for a bad, contagious, disgusting person who discredits the bright image of the republic. A republic that, in principle, has long lived by its own laws. Even President Putin says that hijabs are unusual for us, but Kadyrov says that we have worn, are wearing and will continue to wear hijabs. And they will wear it, no doubt about it. And they will force you. And if you ask Putin about this again, he will begin to dodge so much that you will even regret asking him such a question.

And then there are gays!
Human rights activists say that everything needs to be checked carefully. How can you check this! Even if all the gays of Chechnya come to your reception and unanimously report that they are being oppressed, that someone was even killed, what consequences will this have?

In Chechnya, the houses of relatives of alleged terrorists are burned down, and the relatives themselves, contrary to all laws and codes, are thrown out - and do you think that with such a practice, someone will defend gays? Will someone let them live there in peace?

In general, we have an interesting position on this issue. Officially, of course, no one will speak badly about sexual minorities. Well, it’s not customary to talk like that in polite society. But in our hearts we think differently. That this is the most decent society - it is actually the opposite! It is indecent through and through.

The West is decaying, and the word Geyropa does not need explanation or translation. Therefore, in words we smile at them, but to the side, through clenched teeth, we call them fagots. And in the same way, the words will be said that discrimination is not permissible, that all people are brothers, but in reality no one will save gays and punish those who oppress them, even less so.

We love talking about traditions. So this is exactly our tradition. Intolerance, hatred of people who are different from us, who are somehow different from others. We can't just leave them alone, we have to shame them, punish them, start treating them with electric shock.

We believe that others are obliged to observe our traditions, and individual rights are foreign chatter. Chechnya in this sense is the most frank, most demonstrative region, which is why I say that there is nothing worse than being born in Chechnya and turning out to be gay. For such people, this is not a matter of personal preference, but a matter of survival.

At the end of last week, information appeared in the media about the persecution of homosexual men in Chechnya. The editors of Yuga.ru looked into the situation

What happened

On April 1, Novaya Gazeta reported that mass detentions of men suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation were taking place in Chechnya. According to media reports, at least three people were killed, and among the hundred detainees were well-known people in the republic, religious figures and two TV presenters. This information was confirmed to the publication by sources in law enforcement agencies, in the administration of the head of Chechnya and in the community of local LGBT activists.

Novaya Gazeta quotes the text of the message from thematic group V social network"VKontakte":

“Not just young guys were killed, but even adult men over 50 years old. Among them there are well-known personalities in Chechnya.

Participated in various events, television programs, and competitions. I don't want to mention their names. The youngest is 16 years old. He is from our village. Just the other day they brought him all beaten up, just a bag of bones. They threw him into the yard and told him to kill him. They still say he hasn’t come to his senses and is unlikely to come. I don’t know how they explain why they do this, they will be asked to provide evidence that our son or brother is like that.”

Information about the detention of gays in Chechnya was confirmed by a Yuga.ru source in the Russian LGBT Network: “This problem became known a week ago. The information came through human rights channels. We do not have an exact figure on the number of detainees. But we are preparing to help people evacuate if something happens.”

At least three people were killed, and among the hundred detained were well-known people in the republic, religious figures and two TV presenters.

Reaction of the Chechen authorities

On the evening of the same day, comments from the republican authorities appeared in the press. Thus, the press secretary of the head of Chechnya, Alvi Karimov, denied information about mass detentions. According to him, the information that appeared in the media is “an attempt to denigrate the Chechen Republic,” as well as lies and disinformation.

“The publication that appeared is an absolute lie. You cannot detain and oppress someone who simply is not in the republic,” Karimov said.

He also emphasized that “if there were such people in Chechnya, law enforcement agencies would not have any worries with them, since their relatives themselves would send them to an address from which they do not return.”

The Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya also commented on information about the mass detentions of gays. According to one of its members, Kheda Saratova, the persecution of gay people is not condemned in Chechen society.

“I cannot draw a line, but I can only say that even extreme measures against such people will not be condemned by the society in which we live. I think that even if such a person is killed by his own relatives, they will do whatever they can not to disclose it. And the entire judicial system, and the same authorities, will also treat with understanding what happened in this family. They won’t particularly rock the boat and defend this person,” Saratova said.

I wouldn't even consider a claim about the murder of a gay man.

Kheda Saratova, member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya

A member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya also added that she had not received a single statement on this matter, but she “would not even consider it.”

“I am a Chechen, I live in this society, and what you say is even worse than war. If we turn a blind eye to this today, I am sure that our society will disintegrate, and this must under no circumstances be allowed,” she emphasized.

However, the next day, Saratova told Business FM that she was “misunderstood” and she “did not call for reprisals against gays.” She explained her words by the “shock” she was in after the news that “gays can live in Chechnya.”

“I naturally knew that they existed in the world, but I had never heard that they existed in our society. All this shocked me. Maybe I was even a little crazy when I gave the interview. I regret that I said some phrases, for example, that relatives will not regret if something happens to them. I really regret this,” Saratova said, adding that she was perplexed “why [the media] are trying to tarnish the image of Chechen human rights activists.”

Applications for gay pride parades in the Caucasus

Novaya Gazeta's sources in the Chechen special services linked the mass detentions of gays in the republic with requests by LGBT activists to hold gay pride parades in four Caucasian cities.

Let us remind you: in the first half of March, activist from the Sverdlovsk region Vladimir Klimov submitted applications to hold gay pride parades in Nalchik, Cherkessk, Stavropol and Maykop. The applications stated that the events were planned to be held “in support of a tolerant attitude and respect for the rights and freedoms of persons of homosexual orientation and gender minorities in Russia.” According to the notice, the number of intended participants was 300. Moscow resident Nikolai Alekseev is indicated as the immediate manager of the procession.

Klimov himself said that events in cities North Caucasus are planned “as part of a large campaign.” “78 regions have already been covered. Applications were submitted in Nalchik, Cherkessk, Stavropol and Maykop. No replies have been received yet. There is interaction with local activists, we are waiting for approval. The stated dates are different, we will manage everything,” the activist said.

A few days later, an official response was received from the authorities of these cities. Neither in Nalchik, nor in Cherkessk, nor in Stavropol, nor in Maykop did the authorities allow an LGBT rally. And in Nalchik local residents and even organized a gathering at which they opposed holding a gay pride parade in their city.

“This is our land, and we will not allow such dirt here. We have gathered here not to prevent the procession, but to stop even thoughts about it. Neither the Kabardians, nor the Balkars, in general the entire Caucasus will allow this procession,” said one of the participants in the gathering.

“It was at this time that a command was given in Chechnya for a “preventive cleansing”, and things came to real murders,” reports Novaya Gazeta, citing its own sources in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya.

In turn, one of the organizers of gay pride parades, Nikolai Alekseev, said that he plans to appeal the decisions of the authorities of these cities and is ready to go to the European Court of Human Rights. And when asked about the connection between requests to hold gay pride parades in the Caucasus and mass detentions in Chechnya, he replied that the journalist “speculates on unverified information, operates on unfounded facts, and he personally knows nothing about such persecution and the consequences of his actions.”

So far there is no official confirmation of mass persecution in Chechnya. But federal authorities have already responded to the situation. Thus, the head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, said that reports of persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya need to be verified.

“I contacted our colleagues in Chechnya today, they have no information about this. But the signal is so monstrous that it certainly needs careful verification,” Fedotov said.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that law enforcement agencies will check information about the persecution of gays in Chechnya. “We don’t know how true this information is. Of course, there are publications, and the internal affairs bodies will check this,” Peskov told the Dozhd TV channel.

The Russian LGBT Network also made an official statement. The organization’s council expressed outrage and concern both at the information about kidnappings and killings and at the reaction of officials Chechen Republic: “No national and/or religious traditions and norms can justify the kidnapping and murder of a person. Any reference to “tradition” to justify kidnappings and murders is immoral and criminal.”

from the official statement of the Russian LGBT Network

The organization also reported that it would submit two applications to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. One - with a demand to check the report on crimes published in Novaya Gazeta. The second is to demand that public statements justifying the killings made by Chechen officials on April 1 be checked for criminality.

“Remember that the human rights situation in the North Caucasus is very difficult. Now we're talking about about people's lives, and these people can only be helped by evacuating them. The Russian LGBT Network has the resources to smuggle people out; there is a team that is already doing everything possible to save lives. That is why we ask you to pass on all information about people who need help, and any offers of help to us,” says the official statement of the Russian LGBT Network.

Reports of persecution of gays in Chechnya were received on hotline organizations from March 29 to April 2, 2017. The LGBT Network did not name the people who spoke about the persecution; they are all anonymous sources. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya previously denied reports of detentions of gays in the republic.

Story one

One of the sources of the LGBT Network said that he was detained on suspicion of homosexuality on February 28 and taken to the commandant’s office, located in an abandoned concrete barracks near the city of Argun. In total, 15 people were sitting in the barracks, including one TV presenter and a well-known hairdresser in Chechnya. The interlocutor claims that the detained men were tortured with electric shocks, not fed, beaten, and “often beaten to death.” The source provided the organization with photographs showing extensive hematomas in the lower back and legs, but the LGBT Network did not publish the photographs.

On March 5, relatives of one of the young men arrived at the barracks, handcuffed him and took him away in an unknown direction. According to the interlocutor, this man did not return home. After this, the detainees were told: “If you have men in your family, they will also kill you like [the man who was taken by relatives].”

The man himself was released on March 7, but it was not specified under what circumstances he was released. The LGBT Network claims that the man and his family were able to leave Chechnya and are now outside Russia.

Story two

A young gay man from Grozny, who lives outside of Chechnya, told the organization the story of his friend, who was detained on suspicion of homosexuality. According to the detainee, he was sitting in a room where security forces were holding about 30 other people. “In an attempt to extract a confession, they beat him with a hose and tortured him with electric shock,” the organization says. After some time, the man was released.

This source claims that, according to the security forces, the command to detain Chechen gays was given by the leadership of the republic. The detained men were required to hand over to the security forces the contacts of other gay men, but rather than more people reported, the longer he was detained.

Story three

A third source of the organization said that his friend was detained on suspicion of homosexual orientation due to correspondence on the VKontakte social network. Late in the evening, a black Toyota Camry car without license plates drove up to the man’s house, in which sat people in the uniform of the Terek SOBR detachment. They took the young man to an unknown place, where they held him for several days and tortured him.

Relatives were able to establish where the detained man was. “The father was promised that his son would be shown in disgrace on local television and released,” the source said. The man was indeed released, but he further fate unknown. He never left Chechnya.

What they say about the persecution of gays in Chechnya

On April 1, Novaya Gazeta reported that: in recent weeks, police have detained about 100 people and killed at least three men. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya and the administration of the head of the republic denied these reports.

Press secretary of the head of Chechnya Alvi Karimov, commenting on the publication of Novaya Gazeta. “The publication that appeared is an absolute lie - you cannot detain and oppress someone who simply is not in the republic.<...>If there were such people in Chechnya, law enforcement agencies would not have any worries with them, since their relatives themselves would send them to an address from which they do not return,” he said.

Member of the Human Rights Council in Chechnya Kheda Saratova called homosexuality an “evil” that every Chechen must fight. “I assure you, in our Chechen society, a person who respects himself, traditions and customs, he himself will persecute without any structures and do everything to ensure that such people do not exist in our society,” she said. A day later, she stated that she was misunderstood: “I was shocked by all this. Maybe I was even a little crazy when I gave the interview.”

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Republic, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, in turn, called it “outrageous” that “completely unverified information is presented as a fait accompli.” “Complete nonsense and an attempt to initiate a scandal discrediting Chechen society,” he commented on the publication of Novaya Gazeta.

A couple of weeks ago, when there was a wave of publications on Facebook about how Chechen homosexuals were being slaughtered in the hundreds, I figured out the topic.

The information came from Novaya Gazeta. The essence of the publication, in a nutshell, was that the sodomites of Chechnya are searched for, caught and killed.

All this, allegedly, is happening almost with the support of the leadership of the republic, and relatives of gays are also helping the authorities.

Novaya Gazeta became aware of mass detentions of residents of Chechnya in connection with their non-traditional sexual orientation - or suspicion of such. On at the moment More than a hundred men have already been detained. Novaya Gazeta already knows the names of three dead, but our sources claim that there are many more victims.

Mass detentions. Hundreds of men. Chechnya.

Some kind of horror. Novaya Gazeta is confident that hundreds of homosexuals are hiding in Chechnya.

Of course, this is a lie. There are not and cannot be gays in Chechnya. There are plenty of them in ballet schools in Moscow or St. Petersburg. In some Amsterdam - in abundance. In Chechnya, boys have no way of knowing that they can get fucked in the ass, and therefore they cannot grow up to be sodomites.

This is probably wildly uncivilized. However, this is a fact.

Only a completely incompetent person can believe in Chechen homosexuals fucking each other in the asses, and say that there are dozens and hundreds of them.

I don’t know about you, but for me “Novaya Gazeta” has long become synonymous with words such as schizophrenia, idiocy, corruption.

Just look at the author of “New” Latynina. Can she carry anything other than a blizzard? Or a criminal convicted under the article of Libel, Irek Murtazin - an impotent man who is unable to connect two or three words into a single sentence.

I will say more, of all the opposition media, Novaya Gazeta is ahead of all. The Lozhd TV channel, how far it is from common sense, is even more adequate.

The publication about Chechen homosexuals was published on the eve of April 1. This added to my confidence that the newspaper journalists smoked something very intoxicating or took five hundred grams per chest.

We sat and thought: how can we joke so that they themselves will have fun? Write about alien landings? Well, something like that - this is how an article about homosexuals in Chechnya appeared.

All this would quickly die down if people in Chechnya knew about April Fool's Day. Residents of the republic, when the news reached them that they had homosexuals, took it seriously. They choked and went to the rally.

There they were explained what homosexuals were. The men vomited in disgust and threatened the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta with a torn ass.

Having received a warning to monitor the bazaar, the editor-in-chief ran - just don’t laugh! - to the Kremlin.

Well, that’s right - the opposition loves to shout about the “tyrant” Putin, but if something happens, they run to him.

Peskov personally promised Novaya Gazeta that all disputes under articles on the rights of sexual minorities in Chechnya should be resolved in court.

If, in the opinion of someone, the publications were deliberately slanderous or distorted reality, there are methods provided for by law to challenge and hold the authors of certain published materials accountable

Some kind of tyranny. Everyone was sent to court. I wonder where Novaya Gazeta will find the disadvantaged sodomites of Chechnya to prove that it is right?

Do you believe in Chechen gays?