Zelimkhan Bakayev Believed Dead
A popular Chechen singer has gone missing and is suspected of being murdered after being detained in the country’s ever going “gay purge.”
Singer Zelimkhan Bakayev disappeared during a Moscow press conference campaign says Russian LGBT Network, the organization that’s been helping Chechen gay men escape the country, founder Igor Kochetkov.
The country has been imprisoning, torturing, and in some cases even killing gay men for several months now. Yet, the Russian LGBT Network and the Canadian government are the only ones working to save and protect these gay and bisexual men (with some countries offering refuge to one or two men and many others just asking Chechen/Russia to stop the senselessness).
Due to that, these attacks against gay and bisexual men still seem to be going on as Bakayev is the latest recognized victim.
28-year-old Bakayev’s family last saw him in Chenya’s capital city Grozny back on August 8.
A popular Chechen singer has gone missing and is suspected of being murdered after being detained in the country’s ever going “gay purge.”
Singer Zelimkhan Bakayev disappeared during a Moscow press conference campaign says Russian LGBT Network, the organization that’s been helping Chechen gay men escape the country, founder Igor Kochetkov.
The country has been imprisoning, torturing, and in some cases even killing gay men for several months now. Yet, the Russian LGBT Network and the Canadian government are the only ones working to save and protect these gay and bisexual men (with some countries offering refuge to one or two men and many others just asking Chechen/Russia to stop the senselessness).
Due to that, these attacks against gay and bisexual men still seem to be going on as Bakayev is the latest recognized victim.
28-year-old Bakayev’s family last saw him in Chenya’s capital city Grozny back on August 8.