Five officials close to Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov have become targets of a claim filed by LGBT rights activists in Germany over accusations that the authorities are responsible for persecution on the basis of sexual orientation.
Campaigners from the Russian LGBT Network and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a Berlin-based NGO, are demanding the end of alleged crimes against humanity, with the activists claiming that Chechen authorities and its military have committed persecution, unlawful arrests, torture and sexual violence, as well as accusing them of incitement to murder. Chechnya, a majority-Muslim republic, is located around 1,500 kilometers south of Moscow.
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