LGBT activists detained in Moscow while petitioning against Chechen purge

Five people detained as they tried to submit a petition calling for an inquiry into a violent crackdown on gay people in the southern Russian republic Five LGBT activists have been detained in Moscow while trying to submit a petition signed by two million people calling for an investigation into the torture and persecution of gay men in Chechnya. A violent crackdown on gay people in the region was first reported in the newspaper Novaya Gazeta last month. It alleged more than 100 Chechen men susp...