Last week we reported that Canada had granted asylum to 31 gay men who fled the persecution via a secret underground railroad from the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, where reports of detention, torture and...
Canada has discreetly granted asylum to 31 gay men from Chechnya working with the NGO Rainbow Railroad, a clandestine program unique in the world. The evacuations, spearheaded by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Kimahli Powell,...
Russia is attempting to deport Ali Feruz (née Khudoberdi Nurmatov) the gay journalist who helped break the story about Chechnya’s imprisonment, torture and murder of gay men back to Uzbekistan — a country that he fled...
Grand jury subpoenas have been issued in connection with a June 2016 meeting that included President Donald Trump’s son, his son-in-law and a Russian lawyer, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, in a sign...
Russia’s leading religious television channel is offering to send LGBT Russians abroad for good, so they can “submit to their sins” outside Russia. The ultra-conservative Tsargrad network issued a video message on Thursday...
The United States Congress passed a bipartisan resolution on Tuesday condemning anti-gay persecution and violence in Chechnya. House resolution 351 was introduced on May 23 by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican who...
The European Court has ruled that Russia discriminated against three gay rights activists who opposed the law. It was adopted in 2013, banning promotion of homosexuality among people under 18. The law “reinforced stigma...
Openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen joined hundreds of protesters outside the Russian embassy in London to voice anger against a “purge” of gay men in Chechnya. McKellen described it as “a matter of principle”...
