It has been two decades since Russia fight a war against the Islamic Insurgents and have been a long stain on human rights record of the Russia President Vladimir V. Putin. Previously, gay people has never been a target but the Russian republic of Chechnya has released an anti-gay campaign, which leads the ChenChen authorities suspected a dozen of men of being a homosexual.

According to The New York Times, there were two TV reporters and a waiter who suddenly vanished for over the past week. In an opposition newspaper, it confirmed that the ChenChen authorities had been detaining over 100 gay men and killed three men, which suspected the had died in extrajudicial killings.

However, the spokesperson of Chechnya denied and describe the report as disinformation and claim that gay people do not exist in Chechnya. The spokesperson added that if there were a gay living in the region the ChenChen authorities would not do anything but would send them in a place where there is no returning.

The Guardian indicated that ChenChen has a conservative society, and having a gay member of the family would be a shame because of the difficulty to get married, and for those who are suspected to be gay will be likely abandoned by their own families. The LGBT rights are mixed in Russia, where Moscow and other big cities will always have prosperous gay scenes, while other cities are banning the propaganda of homosexuality among minors.

According to some reports, if gay men will find posting on any social networks looking for a date, the gay men will be arrested by the ChenChen authorities and this will be an equal to a death sentence in Caucasus. The gay men have been started deleting their online account and escape from the region after reading a post from a Russian social networking site that a 16-year-old boy had been detained in Chechnya and returned all beaten, just a sack of bones.

In St Petersburg, an LGBT organization has been building an anonymous hotline for the gay men in Chechnya. This hotline will help the gay men with evacuation from the republic. Because of the threats and repression, no independent journalist was able to work in the region and the people who work with the human rights will dismiss the newspaper report.

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