Kadyrov agreed to help checking gays' persecutions in Chechnya

Ramzan Kadyrov has promised to help in checking the reports on oppressions of homosexuals in Chechnya, noting that "there had never been any gays among Chechens." He was opposed by a gay, who had left Chechnya and stated regular raids on the LGBT community in Chechnya.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that today the Russian president promised Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, to instruct the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to help in checking the reports about persecutions of gays in Chechnya.

"We have never seen sex minorities among Chechens, except the ones, who, not being Chechens, call themselves as such, when they try to get to the West," the TASS quotes Mr Kadyrov as saying.

According to the Chechen gay, who left for Europe five years ago, "serious persecutions of gays in Chechnya began back in 2011". "They were caught, beaten up and made money out of it," he said in his interview to the "Snob" magazine, adding that "in 2012, his boyfriend was detained and beaten up. They beat him with electric current, and he could not withstand that and gave me and another guy from Nalchik out."

According to his story, after that he went to Dagestan, but then returned to Chechnya, where he was detained and beaten up by law enforcers. After he "promised to expose very rich homosexuals," he was released. Then he went to Europe and received a residence permit there.

"I didn't want to be gay. However, what should I do, if I'm like this? I understand that this is abnormal," the native of Chechnya has added.

It should be noted here that reports about gays' persecutions in Chechnya have evoked a broad resonance; concerns were expressed by the USA and the European Union.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.