Despite Fascination with Russia, Nets Still Hardly Mention Chechen Gay Purge
By Sarah Stites | June 15, 2017 5:35 PM EDT
It’s mid-way through Pride Month, a celebration of LGBT rights, but broadcast networks -- no strangers to condemning Russia -- are largely ignoring major human rights abuses against Chechnya’s gay community. This, while in 2014, NBC made 26 mentions of Russia’s anti-gay legislation.
Novaya Gazeta, a Russian news outlet, published an alarming April 1 report of government-led outing, capture and torture of gay and bisexual men in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic. Traumatized escapees described the nightmares of electrocution, beatings, imprisonment and even death.
Source URL:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/sarah-stites/2017/06/15/despite-fascination-russia-nets-still-hardly-mention-chechen
