In Welcome To Chechnya, the award-winning documentary maker David France records a network of activists helping victims escape the region
May 20, 2020
Men are being detained, starved and beaten
May 10, 2019
In support of queer youth in Chechnya, this defiant photo series is shot in front of historical Russian landmarks
Mar 22, 2019
They’re helping people to escape
Jan 23, 2019
40 people have been detained and two are dead in a new crackdown – here’s what you can do to help
Jan 15, 2019
A year since news first broke of the Russian region’s violence against LGBTQ people, Voices4 are demanding real action
May 01, 2018
“The closure of his Instagram account is a matter of Kadyrov’s image, of his prestige. When he feels offended, nothing else is important to him”
Jan 22, 2018
He went on to claim any criticism from foreign press was intended to ‘plunge Chechnya into chaos’
Jan 19, 2018
‘They disgraced me before the Chechen people and the Chechen leader. I was framed’
Nov 16, 2017
Maxim Lapunov was captured, detained and tortured by Russian authorities
Oct 17, 2017
31 people from the Russian region torturing and murdering gay people have been given safe refuge in the last three months
Sep 04, 2017
30-year-old Ali Feruz is fighting to remain in Russia but authorities may send him back to his home country Uzbekistan, where homosexuality is illegal
Aug 07, 2017
“They beat my chest and my face with their feet, and they hit my head against the floor. One of them said: ‘Do not beat him until the shock stage, at that point he will stop feeling pain. We don’t need that’”
Jul 31, 2017
Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov said that gays need to be eradicated to ‘purify our blood’
Jul 14, 2017
Ramzan Kadyrov took to social media to express denial of the 26 gay men killed in the purge
May 31, 2017