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In Chechnya, detained homosexuals contain a secret prison in the city of Argun. This was reported by "New Gazeta" with reference to eyewitnesses certificates.

"The prison is several buildings that are formally empty. In the 2000s, a military commandant’s office was located here, then the Argun was located there," the publication notes.

According to eyewitnesses, the initiators of the persecution of homosexuals were the speaker of the Chechnya Parliament Magomed Daudov ("Lord") and the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Argun Ayub Kataev. "According to our sources, including those who were sitting in the Argun prison, it was the" Lord "who was present when the detainees were released when transferring them to relatives," News reports.

The first wave of persecution began in February. In the phone, men detained in a state of drug intoxication, police found "photographs and videos of outright content and dozens of contacts of local homosexuals."

During the campaign, many random people fell into the hands of police officers. The phones placed in prison were specially left on, and all the men who called them automatically fell under suspicion. “They were also illegally detained, beaten, with electric shock and, at best, released for a huge ransom. We know situations where relatives were forced to urgently sell apartments and property to save their loved ones,” the publication notes.

Soon, the wave of detentions went to decline. However, after the project manager Gayrussia.ru Nikolay Alekseev submitted applications for LGBT promotions in the Caucasian region, the persecution resumed with renewed vigor, the author of the article Elena Milashina notes.

The Novaya Gazeta is reliably known about at least three murdered homosexuals. There is also information about the potential fourth victim. The publication intends to contact the general prosecutor Yuri Chaika with a demand to oblige the Investigative Committee to conduct an audit on the revealed facts.

On April 1, New Gazeta reported the mass detentions of Chechen men who are suspected of homosexuality. According to the publication, more than a hundred people were detained. In Chechnya, this information was called a lie. At the same time, officials of the republic simultaneously denied the very presence of homosexuals in Chechnya and stated that they deserve death.

Member of the Council under the head of Chechnya on the development of civil society and human rights Hed Saratov said that homosexuality is contrary to the traditions and values ​​of the population of the republic. “Even the extreme measure in relation to such people in which we live in which we live will not condemn,” she said. “I think that even if his relatives kill such a person, they will do anything in order not to disclose it. And the entire judicial system, and the same bodies will also be understood with what happened in this family. They will not be hungry and protect this person.”

The press secretary of the head of Chechnya Alvi Karimov called the article Milashina "an attempt to denigrate the republic" and misinformation. “The publication that has appeared is an absolute lie. You can’t detain and oppress the one who simply is not in the republic,” Karimov said. “If there were such people in Chechnya, the law enforcement agencies would not have any concerns with them, since relatives themselves would send them to the address where they did not return.”

On April 2, in St. Petersburg, LGBT activists held a public action on the Marse Field in protest against the murders of gays in Chechnya. In addition, one of the activists chained himself with the bridge of Akhmat Kadyrov. The reaction of passers -by and the police was not reported.