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Russian gay men in 'mortal danger' in Chechnya
By EUobserver
The Russian LGBT Network, an NGO, has cried out for international support for two gay men - Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev - saying their lives were in "mortal danger", the BBC reports. The appeal came after Russian police forcibly returned them to Russia's semi-autonomous Chechnya province last week. The men were previously tortured by Chechnya's homophonic regime on grounds of sedition, amid dozens of similar cases of LGBTI persecution.