On Saturday, a leading Russian opposition newspaper confirmed a story already circulating among human rights activists: The Chechen authorities were arresting and killing gay men. By Saturday, the paper reported, and an analyst of the region with her own sources confirmed, that more than 100 gay men had been detained. Nikolai Alekseev, a gay rights activist coordinating this effort, told Novaya Gazeta he had chosen this tactic rather than staging risky, unsanctioned gay parades. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAccording to the report, the authorities set to finding and arresting closeted gay men, partly by posing as men looking for dates on social networking sites. But reaching communities of closeted gay men in the remote mountain region poses challenges.

Source: New York Times April 01, 2017 19:18 UTC