Chechen authorities deny media report on 'mass detentions' of gays

https://www.rt.com/news/383152-chechnya-gay-detentions-report/

This news is about a gay detentions report in Chechnya, a Russian newspaper has reported that "over a hundred men" were recently detained in the Chechen Republic and at least three killed because of their homosexuality. The report on alleged detentions and killings was published on Saturday by Novaya Gazeta.

Citing "a big number" of unnamed sources in the Chechen interior ministry, president's administration, prosecutor's office and the local LGBT community, it said "mass detentions" of men who are gay or are "suspected" of being gay have occurred in Chechnya recently.

But a spokesman for the Chechen leader has denied the reports.

The head of Chechen interior ministry's press service, Magomed Deniev, told RBC media company that he had had no information on any such detentions and suggested the report might have been "an April Fools' joke."

Commenting on the report to RIA Novosti news agency, Karimov said that "men in Chechnya lead a healthy lifestyle, practice sports and have only one [sexual] orientation, defined since humankind creation.

"There are no other orientations in Chechnya," he told RIA, adding that his statement is supported by "high birth rate" in the region.

"If there were such people [gays] in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have any issues with them, because their relatives themselves would be sending them to places, from where no one returns," the official told Interfax.

PERSONAL OPINION

This news is horrible, how can they torture and kill a person just because of their sexual orientation,

And I am sure that the citations of this news are false (By this I mean that people lie and don’t tell the truth) because I have read thousands of news related to this homophobic act and there was enough evidence to see that it was real.

I read that they had men in concentration camps like the Nazis with the Jews, who did not feed them and who were killing them.

And regarding what he says about homosexuality does not exist in his country, this is false, I'm sure it exists, but people should not say it out of fear that they do things like these poor men.

I believe that the authorities have to intervene and stop all this and also make sure that it does not happen again because it’s a crime against humanity.