All posts tagged "torture"
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Human Rights Advocates Blast Intersex Exceptions in Anti-Trans Laws
As a host of state legislatures in the United States continue their assault on the LGBTQ community — primarily targeting transgender youth — some advocates...
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Gay Afghan Medical Student Tortured and Killed by the Taliban
An openly gay medical student in Afghanistan was abducted, tortured, and killed by the Taliban after being stopped at a traffic checkpoint, becoming the latest...
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U.S. House approves Global Respect Act to combat LGBTQ rights abuse
The U.S. House of Representatives approved the Global Respect Act, a bill to sanction violators of LGBTQI human rights abroad.
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Iran has executed two gay men convicted of sodomy, rights group says
Iran has reportedly executed two men who were imprisoned for six years and convicted of sodomy, according to human rights groups.
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Lesbian couple found tortured, shot and dismembered in Mexico
Mexican authorities are continuing to investigate the murder of a lesbian couple who was found tortured, shot and dismembered.
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Gay teen burned, strangled and beaten by ex in homophobic attack
A gay teen has been left "broken" after an ex-partner led a group assault against him, in what prosecutors described as "torture"
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Russian reporter who broke story on Chechnya’s torture of gay men attacked by gang
Elena Milashina claims the attack against her appeared "coordinated, orchestrated"
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Detentions of gay men and women signal another anti-LGBTQ crackdown in Chechnya
Several men and women have been detained in Russia’s Chechnya region on suspicion of being gay, signaling yet another renewal of efforts to purge the...
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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov doubles down on denying existence of gays in Chechnya
Chechen leader continues to deny reports that gay and bisexual men are being tortured in his country
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Trump meets with Putin at G-20 Summit, but no mention of Chechnya
It remains unclear whether President Donald Trump brought up the topic of anti-gay abuses happening in the Russian republic of Chechnya when he met face-to-face...
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French president calls on Putin to protect gays in Chechnya
French President Emmanuel Macron has joined a growing list of world leaders calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to ensure that LGBTQ people in the...
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Marco Rubio denounces anti-gay human rights abuses in Chechnya
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) denounced the anti-gay pogrom currently going on in the Russian republic of Chechnya, where hundreds of gay men have been detained...
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Activists demand oil companies denounce anti-gay persecution in Chechnya
Petition asks oil companies to apply financial pressure on Russia to end anti-gay killings and internments
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Ellen DeGeneres: World must “rise up” to help tortured gay men in Chechnya
DeGeneres took to Twitter to inform her followers of the abductions, torture and murder occurring in the Russian province
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Amnesty International: Stop abduction, torture and murder of gay men in Chechnya
"The Chechen government won’t admit that gay men even exist in Chechnya"
