Chechnya: Gay Rights Activists Arrested in Moscow For Delivering Petition

Five gay rights activists have been detained in Moscow while trying to deliver a petition demanding an investigation into the ongoing detention, torture and murder of gay men in Chechnya.

Police said that four Russian and one Italian activists were arrested because their action was unauthorized.

The Russian LGBT Network said the petition.was signed “by more than two million people around the world, more than the entire population of the Chechen republic,” reports the BBC.

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Last month, Natalia Poplevskaya of the Russian LGBT Network said victims of the Chechen crackdown were being held at a detention centre near Argun, 13 miles from the city of Grozny.

“Torture is going on with electric shocks, beatings with cables,” she told the BBC, adding that three deaths had been reported. “All the people arrested are homosexual men or perceived as being gay.”

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