‘They Starve You. They Shock You’: Inside the Anti-Gay Pogrom in Chechnya (Published 2017)
GROZNY, Russia — It was supposed to be a night out. But for the young man who calls himself Maksim, as for scores of other gay men arrested in a pogrom this month in Russia’s Chechnya region, it pivoted into nearly two weeks of beatings and torture. Maksim said it had started with a chat room …
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