Despite Ramzan Kadyrov's public rejection of mobilisation, the Chechen authorities have called up 564 men from various regions of Russia who applied for passports after mobilisation was announced in ...

A Russian LGBT advocacy group on Monday confirmed a report that gay men in Chechnya have been sent to secret prisons. Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper, on April 4 reported gay men have been sent to ...

Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks. "It's a feeling like they are breaking every ...

Ilya looks tired and drawn. After being beaten and tortured by men in military uniform in Russia’s Chechnya region, he fled to Moscow but still fears for his life — because he is gay. “In Chechnya, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is forcibly conscripting men in Chechnya to fight in Ukraine, imprisoning those who refuse and threatening their families, ...

Elena Milashina (Left Photo: U.S. Department of State, via Wikimedia. Right Photo: CNN screenshot.) The Russian journalist who uncovered the horrific kidnappings, detentions, and torture of gay men in ...

Russian forces have sustained heavy losses in the war in Ukraine, and fighters from Chechnya are no exception: On October 24, dozens of Chechen men were killed in an artillery strike on the building ...