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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — In defiance of those in Moscow eager to curb his powers, Chechnya’s strongman leader told his security forces to open fire on Russian federal troops if they tried to operate in the ...

As Ukrainian and Western officials have decried the atrocities witnessed in the Bucha massacre and around Kyiv, a hardened Chechen fighter and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been ...

MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) - Two men from Chechnya have told Reuters they were detained by police and subjected to torture and beatings because they were gay, which is considered a crime by some in ...

A month after reports emerged of gay Chechen men being rounded up and sent to a prison camp in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a group of men who say they are survivors of the camps ...

MOSCOW — The bodies of dozens of Chechen men, most of them shot, were found Saturday at a mass dumping site close to Russian military headquarters in the separatist republic of Chechnya, just three ...

The Russian LGBT Network has reported that in May 2021, Chechen-speaking men abducted Ibragim Selimkhanov in Moscow and forcibly returned him to Chechnya’s capital Grozny, where authorities ...

The men of gun-loving Chechnya, long Russia’s most rebellious province, are not known for turning the other cheek. When a member of a Chechen clan is killed, even in a street brawl the vendetta can ...