You forgot the part where the gays are put into concentration camps, first concentration camps in Europe for LGBT people since Hitler.
I thought you were kidding but apparently you were not.
Human Rights Watch has called upon western countries to supply emergency visa for gay people that can manage to reach their embassies in Russia.
A few hundred gay men have been arrested in CHechen. At least 3 were murdered by the police, at least one was murdered by his own family, after being anal raped with wooden poles and glass bottles by the police, and forced to confess his sexuality in front of his family. Many of the arrested are missing.
According to Boris Dittrich, former dutch politician and now director of LGBT rights at HRW, he has not seen large scale and brutal violence against gays since he started working at HRW 10 years ago.
Next week he will attend a UN meeting in New York, where he will try to put the issue higher on the agenda.
According to Dittrich, Putin has the power to end this, by disciplining his vassal Kadyrov.
The Kremlin however, abstains. The only statement it made is that they cannot verify the accusations made by HRW and Novaja Gazeta from reliable sources.
Meanwhile, journalists at the Novaja Gazeta newspaper are fearing for their safety. Since the publication of their article, CHechen authorities, clerics, and clan leaders want their heads. A Chechen government minister demanded an apology from the newspaper for daring to write about the 'deadly sin, sodomy'.
The newspaper does have some reason to fear for their safety.
In 2006, one of the newspaper's journalists, Anna Politikovskaya, was murdered in Moscow. The murder was never solved.
According to the Kremlin, 'not a single gay has reported abuse with the authorities'. Duh. It's the aurhorities that are anal raping and killing them, ofcourse they haven't reported abuse.
I fear we'll find the couple of hundred missing gays in a mass grave somewhere, a couple of decades from now
http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/homo-s-tsjetsjenie-ontvoerd-en-gemarteld-human-rights-watch-wil-noodvisa~a4487733/