gay purge

Zelimkhan Akhmadov was put on a wanted list after he fled for his life.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued an apology and an unprecedented promise of financial compensation.

Bekkhan Yusupov says he's not gay and assertions that he is destroyed his reputation.

Human rights groups are still calling on Russia to act in response to reports of gay concentration camps.

More than 200 Orthodox and right-wing Russians sailed an icon-bedecked ship down the Moscow River on Sunday to "cleanse" the waters after a gay cruise took the same route the night before.

A representative told the United Nations there was no evidence of a "gay purge."

"The sounds of torture are just there all day," a survivor of detention camps tells Human Rights Watch. 

Women are being raped with "electric shock sticks," activists say.

Human rights volunteers say Russia has failed to properly investigate these incidents or the continued arrests of gays and bisexuals in Chechnya.

The Russian republic's antigay crackdown has been going on for two years, but there has been a spike in detentions since December.

Men detained in recent months describe torture, including electric shock and being raped with a stick, as police demanded they turn over names of gays, according to the Human Rights Watch. 

The Russian LGBT Network on Monday said new waves of persecution started with the arrest of a social media group administrator.

The U.S. has not offered asylum to any Chechen fleeing anti-LGBTQ persecution and has become increasingly hostile to those seeking it.