Purge: Until There Is No One Left
Journal: intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
Year: 2021

In February 2021, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) filed a complaint in Germany for crimes committed in Chechnya, allegedly by five perpetrators including the Chechen Deputy Prime Minister and other government and security forces against approximately 150 LGBTQI+ persons between 2017 and 2020.The allegations include persecution, arbitrary and unlawful arrests and detentions, torture, forced disappearance, and sexual abuse.This piece examines whether the treatment o