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On Friday, Mr Putin said he would personally ask the prosecutor general and interior minister to help Kremlin rights ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova check the reported abuse. In , parliament passed a law imposing heavy fines for providing information about homosexuality to people under 18 , sparking international controversy.

Gender identity is one’s self-identification as male, female, or an alternative gender. Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or female) or gender expression differs from socially constructed norms associated with their birth sex.

Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. Image source, AFP. Chechen police 'torturing gay men' Russia paper warned over Chechnya reports. Now he's in a safe house for men fleeing detention and torture for being gay.

Victims of the crackdown - who were either gay or just perceived to be gay - were being held at a detention centre near Argun, 20km 13 miles from the city of Grozny, she said. On February 15, Muhsin Hendricks, an openly gay imam, Islamic scholar and LGBT rights activist was shot and killed in Gqeberha, South Africa as he was leaving to officiate an interfaith marriage.

Chechen police 'torturing gay men'. German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week urged the Russian authorities to help protect gay rights. Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed an inquiry into a reported crackdown on gay people in the republic of Chechnya, in the North Caucasus.

Chechen officials have denied gay people even exist in the republic, amid reports of arrests and torture. Even now, he is frightened of being identified. Chechnya's strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Friday he was ready to co-operate with the federal authorities on the issue.

He said he would personally ask the prosecutor general and the interior minister to check the reports. Read more of his story. Now some of the alleged victims are starting to speak out. Reports of a campaign against gay men by Chechen security forces have been trickling through since early April when they first appeared in a Russian newspaper.

Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture. This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school.

Hungary deepened its repression of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on March 18 as the parliament passed a draconian law that will outlaw Pride and similar events, thereby. A Chechen government spokesman, Alvi Karimov, denied the allegations. Just a few weeks ago, "Ruslan" was with his wife and children in Chechnya.

Homophobia is widespread in Chechnya. Russia paper warned over Chechnya reports. Homosexuality was decriminalised in the Russian Federation in but concern about homophobia remains high. During a meeting with Ms Moskalkova, the president referred to the reports as "rumours, you could say, about what is happening in our North Caucasus with people of non-traditional orientation", using a euphemism for gay people.

Sexual orientation is a component of identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction. Activists say a number of Chechen gay people have been forced to flee the republic. It details widespread bullying and harassment, discriminatory.

This includes androgynous, bigendered and gender queer people, who tend to see traditional concepts of gender as restrictive. But Mr Kadyrov again insisted there were no "people of non-traditional orientation" in the predominantly Muslim republic, part of the Russian Federation.

He was responding to the ombudswoman's request to set up a "working group" somewhere in Russia, but not in Chechnya, to "take complaints from citizens" on the reported abuse.