In 2017, thanks to an investigation by independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the world learned about the repressions #queer people face in the #NorthCaucasus. Stories of torture and kidnappings appeared on the homepage of the New York Times, and Vladimir #Putin had no choice but to comment. Soon, people began evacuating from #Chechnya. The majority of evacuees in the first wave were men, but #humanrights advocates have since seen an increase in the number of requests from women, not all of them #LGBT+. To learn more about the threats #women face in Chechnya, Meduza spoke to two human rights advocates and two Chechen women who managed to escape.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/22/what-i-want-is-a-secular-chechnya #russia #migration #moscow #religion #islam #repression #kadyrov