Frank Schwabe, a member of the Council's Parliamentary Assembly raised the issue with officials in Moscow and in the Chechen capital Grozny.
A scheduled meeting with the majority-Muslim republic's strongman, Ramzan Kadyrov, did not go ahead. But the meeting he did have was nevertheless"an important sign of the renewal of dialogue", said Mr Schwabe. Mr Schwabe was following up on reports, which first emerged in 2017 when gay men said they had been tortured by law enforcement agencies.READ MOREBefore Mr Schwabe's visit, Mr Kadyrov dismissed those reports as"made up" in a post on Telegram.
Chechen officials repeated this in his meetings with them, said Mr Schwabe, a German Social-Democrat.
😭 and so they fucking should. No one should be persecuted for their gender, sexuality or personality anymore these days
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