“THE youngest one was 16 years old, he’s from our village,” reads a post on VKontakte, a Russian social-networking site. “They recently brought him back, all beat up, just a bag of bones. They dumped him in the courtyard and said to kill him.”
The post was by an anonymous user from Chechnya, on a group for closeted gay people from the Caucasus. It was one of the clearer indications of a brutal anti-gay campaign believed to be unfolding across the Chechen Republic. Earlier this week Novaya Gazeta, a Russian opposition newspaper, published a series of reports claiming that authorities had been detaining dozens of men in a secret prison “in connection with their nontraditional sexual orientation, or suspicion of such.” The paper wrote that two recent waves of crackdowns have seen more than 100 men arrested and at least three killed.
“When the [electric] current is flowing and your body begins to shake, you stop thinking and begin to scream,” one survivor said. “You sit there the whole time and hear the cries of people being tortured.”
The atrocities described in the articles have not been independently verified,...Continue reading
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