On Thursday 6 April, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service called for "prompt, effective and thorough investigations into the reports of abductions and killings of gay men in Chechnya", Russia.
In a press release, the spokesperson said that these investigations were"indispensable so that anyone found guilty of or complicit in such crimes is brought to justice". The spokesperson said that if the allegations of abduction, torture and otherwise ill-treated homosexuals...