Activists Say 40 Detained And 2 Dead In Gay Purge In Chechnya
The "new wave of persecution" began when a social media group administrator's phone contacts were accessed by Chechen authorities, according to the Russian LGBT Network.
Around 40 people have been detained and another two killed in the latest crackdown on Chechnya's LGBT community, Russian activists say.
The "new wave of persecution" started at the end of December, the Russian LGBT Network say in a statement on Monday.
Authorities detained an administrator of a social media group on Russia's VKontakte, where homosexual men from the North Caucasus communicated, the network says.
Mass detentions began after authorities accessed
