U.S. officials have imposed new financial sanctions on a Chechen law enforcement agency linked to a recent “gay purge” that has resulted in dozens of gay and bisexual men being imprisoned, and in some cases, tortured in the North Caucasus region.
RFE/RL: US sanctions Chechen officials allegedly linked to ‘gay purge’, killing of opposition leader Nemtsov
Opposition supporters march in memory of murdered Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow on Feb. 24, 2019. The 55-year-old former first deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin was shot in the back several times just before midnight on Feb. 27, 2015 as he walked across a bridge a stone's throw from the Kremlin walls.
