The group note that an “increasing wave of detentions” of gay men in Chechnya took place in August this year. Security forces in the region are reportedly using gay dating apps to entrap men.

The Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported earlier this month that at least 100 gay men had been arrested and three were killed in Chechnya. Although the Chechnyan government denied ...

On 20 January, Zarema Musaeva, mother of a human rights lawyer from Chechnya (North Caucasus), was abducted from her apartment in Nizhnii Novgorod (Central Russia) by at least seven men. They spoke ...

Russia’s republic of Chechnya has opened its first pharmacy with separate services for men and women, the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said. The new pharmacy in Grozny is the first of 15 ...

Human Rights Watch/Helsinki and Memorial Human Rights Center researchers are currently on a fact-finding mission in Ingushetiya interviewing refugees who fled from Grozny, the capital of Chechnya ...