Chechens threaten Novaya Gazeta

moscow - The Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta fear after threats from Chechnya to the lives of its employees. The Moscow newspaper reported earlier this month that homosexuals are arrested in the southern republic and beaten.

The Chechen Minister for Nationality Politics, Novaya Gazetav, demanding an apology from the newspaper. It is an insult to be proficient in their area ' the cardinal sin of sodomy '' for the proud mountain people, he wrote on Instagram.

Politicians, Muslim clerics and clan chiefs demanded at a meeting in Grozny retaliation. The Novaya Gazeta hit upon alarm. The Chechen leadership under President Ramzan Kadyrov would not hesitate to eliminate opponents out of the way, even in other parts of Russia or abroad. The Kremlin warned Friday against vigilantism.

Human rights activists in Russia confirm the reports about the persecution of homosexuals in Chechnya. Three men were killed. According to a government spokesman in Grozny in Chechnya there are not gay at all. And if they are there, they are slain by their families.