A spokeswoman for European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has called for an investigation into allegations that authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya have been abducting, torturing, and even killing gay men in an apparent coordinated campaign.
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The head of the Kremlin human rights council is calling for a "thorough check" of reports that authorities in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Chechnya have been arresting and killing homosexuals.
The Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reports that authorities in Chechnya are arresting and killing homosexuals.
Russia's Investigative Committee says it has detained a suspect in connection with a March 24 attack on a military base in Chechnya.
Lawmakers in Russia's Muslim-majority, North Caucasus region of Chechnya have voted to allow schoolgirls to wear traditional Islamic head scarves, or hijabs.
A Chechen woman was dragged over the coals on TV and made to publicly retract her words after she was caught complaining about alleged police abuses in a local village.
Among the numerous routine violations of human rights in the Republic of Daghestan, one of the most widespread and pernicious is the inclusion of thousands of people, including some underage children, in the so-called "prophylactic register" of individuals suspected of "an inclination to commit a criminal offense." (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
A suspect in the deadly 2002 hostage-taking attack on a Moscow theater has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that the Russian state was behind an attack on a prominent rights defender and three journalists in 2007, and ordered Moscow to compensate them for "illegal freedom deprivation and torture."
Balkars in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria have marked the 73rd anniversary of their mass deportation to Central Asia by Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
While Magomed Mutsolgov's anger at the use of the deportation anniversary is understandable, blaming the republic's leader is arguably neither rational nor entirely fair. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
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