Latest news about Chechnya (April, 14)
(all sourses are in russian)
- during the ten days that were legally given to the Investigative Committee to act on the announcement no measures were taken (x)
- Chechen authorities no longer deny that they hold people imprisoned, state that the arrested are involved in terrorism (x)
- journalists of Novya Gazeta are getting threats from Chechen authorities on the ground of them “insulting Chechen men” with the assumption that there are homosexual people in the region (х)
- evacuation of people will continue. 50 people contacted Russian LGBT Network since March, 29. some of them are still in Chechnya (х)
- illegal arrests continue (x)
So please, don’t try to dismiss any information and call it “misleading” since journalists risk their lives to spread it + authorities don’t even deny that people are held imprisoned anymore. And don’t try to separate Chechnya from Russia. Our government didn’t do anything to stop this