Chechnya detains 100 gay men in first concentration camps since the Holocaust Arrests are being made as part of an anti-LGBT purge in the region.
Chechnya detains 1. Holocaust. More than 1. Russian region of Chechnya, according to reports by local newspapers and human rights organisations. The arrests are being made as part of a widespread anti- LGBT purge in the area. The prison camps are the first to be established specifically for LGBT people since the Second World War.
The information was first published by the Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, which reported that men were being arrested and kept in prisons where violence and abuse is commonplace. Repression against the LGBT community began after an application for a gay rights march in the Chechen capital of Grozny. A prison camp has reportedly been established in the town of Argun, according to eyewitness testimonies. The report was published on the 1 April, prompting the spokesperson for Chechnya's Interior Ministry to dismiss the claims as an "April Fools' joke". The press secretary for Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, described the report as "lies" and stated there were no gay people in Chechnya."If there were such people in Chechnya, law- enforcement agencies wouldn't need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning," he said. Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic, has denied the allegations. Dima Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images.
Human rights organisations have corroborated the information published by Novaya Gazeta."For several weeks now, a brutal campaign against LGBT people has been sweeping through Chechnya. Law enforcement and security agency officials under control of the ruthless head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, have rounded up dozens of men on suspicion of being gay, torturing and humiliating the victims," a report by Human Rights Watch states."Some of the men have forcibly disappeared. Others were returned to their families barely alive from beatings. At least three men apparently have died since this brutal campaign began."Update: Muslim clerics in Chechnya have threatened Novaya Gazeta with "retribution" after reporting the initial story.
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The unappetizing aerial footage, some of which was posted on You. Tube Wednesday, features sprawling panoramic shots of dark brown lagoons oozing into the green Carolina countryside, in some cases close to residential areas, the filmmaker said. Mark Devries, a documentarian who took on factory farming in the 2.
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I was shocked,” Devries said. Pig manure is fairly similar to human waste, so it would be similar to having a pit of untreated human sewage the size of several football fields out in the open - - and in many cases, right in the vicinity of people’s homes.”Kathleen Kirkham, a spokeswoman for Smithfield Foods, said the company stands by its environmental track record and noted that permits and records for its facilities are publicly available. She said state and federal regulators “sign off” on the company’s treatment systems, and Smithfield facilities are subject to regular visits from inspectors.“On our farms we strive to be good neighbors and respect the rights and property of those who live near our operations,” Kirkham said in an email. We work closely with all of our farmers to meet strict environmental management policies that encourage continuous improvement and exceed most state and federal compliance standards.”The meat- packing giant is no stranger to criticism from environmentalists and animal- rights groups, and its “sea of waste” once earned it one of the largest fines ever from the Environmental Protection Agency, Rolling Stone reported in 2. Devries said his aerial footage offers a more detailed look at the company’s facilities than has previously been seen by the public. To capture the footage, he used a Hexakopter XL, a heavy- lifting drone built to carry camera equipment across long distances. The drone was equipped with a GPS and software to help stabilize it against heavy winds.
Other consumer- model drones were used as well. England Is Mine Full Movie. He said the aerial vehicles were necessary to capture parts of the facilities that are obscured by trees and barbed wire. Devries said Smithfield management wasn't aware of his investigation. The project is likely to further spur the debate over “ag- gag” laws, which make it illegal to conduct undercover investigations at agricultural facilities. A number of states have enacted ag- gag legislation in response to animal- rights groups that capture footage of alleged wrongdoings at factory farms. In North Carolina, an ag- gag bill failed to pass the state legislature earlier this year, meaning Devries is in the clear on that front. Although ag- gag is often framed as an animal- rights issue, such laws also meet with fierce opposition and legal challenges from free- speech advocates.
The issue that it brings up is a much broader issue of laws criminalizing information gathering by the press,” Devries said. It’s a pretty remarkable phenomenon if you think about laws being passed by state legislators for the purpose of preventing people from exposing the wrongdoing of these industries.”Devries isn’t the only person using drones to capture footage of factory farms. Will Potter, a Washington- based journalist and one of the plaintiffs challenging ag- gag legislation in Idaho, raised more than $7. Kickstarter earlier this year for his project, “Drone on the Farm: An Aerial Expose.”Devries said he hopes his footage spurs more public discussion about “the environmental consequences and public- health consequences of these massive open pits of toxic waste.”Watch the full You.
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