‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Director Documents Horrifying Persecution of LGBTQ Chechens

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  • Author: Marc Malkin
  • June 30,2020

‘Welcome to Chechnya’ Director Documents Horrifying Persecution of LGBTQ Chechens Within two weeks of David France reading an article in The New Yorker about the persecution of Lgtbq people in Chechnya, he was on a plane headed to Moscow.

It’s there that he first met the men and women who are featured in his new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” which premieres Tuesday on HBO. Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the autonomous region of Russia, enacted a campaign in 2017 to find, imprison, torture and sometimes kill LGBTQ Chechens. Many who survived imprisonment have fled to Moscow, where they live in a safe house while seeking political asylum in other countries.

“What I learned from that story in The New Yorker was that the crimes that had been exposed earlier in the year hadn’t stopped, that nothing about the exposure in the world media, nothing about the expressions of outrage from European leaders, nothing about the meek, near silence from
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