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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12173

17 January 2019
Contents Publication in full By article 23 / 29
EXTERNAL ACTION / Russia
EU concerned about allegations of persecution of LGBTI persons in Chechnya
Brussels, 16/01/2019 (Agence Europe)

On the evening of Tuesday 15 January, an EU spokesperson informed EUROPE of the European Union’s concerns about the alleged persecution and killing of members of the LGBTI community in Chechnya (see EUROPE 12172). Two members of the LGBTI community were reportedly killed and some thirty others arrested based on their sexual orientation. 

Pending the ongoing verification of the latest [...] alarming news”, the spokesperson recalled that when similar events had occurred in 2017, the...

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