Police officials there kicked them with booted feet, beat them sticks and polypropylene pipes, and tortured three of the four with electric shocks. Human Rights Watch interviewed four men who were detained for between three and 20 days, between December 2018 and February 2019, at the Grozny Internal Affairs Department compound. The Russian authorities should carry out an effective investigation into the anti-gay abuses and hold those responsible to account.
The new abuses come against a backdrop of absolute impunity for the vicious large-scale anti-gay purge in spring 2017. (Moscow) – Police in Chechnya have carried out a new round of unlawful detentions, beatings, and humiliation of men they presume to be gay or bisexual, Human Rights Watch said today. © 2019 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch Illustration based on a detainee's testimony about abuse inflicted on him in detention in the Grozny Internal Affairs Department compound, in Chechnya because of his presumed sexual orientation.
