Cork protest over treatment of gay men in Chechnya

A number of groups are to hold a demonstration on Cork’s Grand Parade on Tuesday in protest at the reported detention and killing of gay men in Chechnya.

Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that police in the predominantly Muslim federal republic rounded up more than 100 men suspected of homosexuality and that at least three of them have been killed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said the Kremlin has no confirmed information about the reported detention and killing of gay men in Chechnya.