Chechen President on Alleged Torture of Gays: There Are No Gay Men in Chechnya

Chechnya’s president responded to reports alleging that gay men are being tortured in the country by saying that there is no torture taking place because there are no gay men in Chechnya.

“This is nonsense,”Chechen President Razman Kadyrov told HBO reporter David Scott in an interview. “We don’t have those kinds of people here. We don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada.”

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“Take them far from us so we don’t have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them,” Kadyrov added.

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