
Faced with grinding poverty, diminishing aid and intense pressures to provide for their families, they felt they had no choice but to submit. June 14, Dispatches. They should also urgently provide safe sanctuary to victims or people at risk of persecution. He told me how armed men had entered his village and raped him. In places such as Syria, where same-sex sexual activity is strictly forbidden and traditional gender roles are entrenched, the use of sexualised torture against men and boys is unsurprising. And all the inmates were watching… They hit [us] on the head with their sticks… Then, they left but another three officers walked in.

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They had access to water only when forced to clean the floor and the toilet daily.


Human Rights Watch interviewed four men who were detained for between three and 20 days, between December and Februaryat the Grozny Internal Affairs Department compound. Chechnya is a highly conservative majority-Muslim society and homosexuality is generally viewed as severely tainting family honor. The interrogators wanted Anzor to confess to being gay and to implicate his partner. The next day, police officers had Anzor, Aslanbek, and Vakha clean the corridor, wash the toilet, the floor, and the doors leading to various rooms, some of which were sealed.




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