*'Something Inside Me Died': An Ethnic Chechen Says He Was Tortured In Antigay 'Purge' from RFERL, Oct 2019. “I yelled at them in prison: ‘I am a good person. Stop beating me.’ But even then, they didn’t stop,” Dzhabrailov said."
*'A Lot Of Girls Would Probably Rather Die': In Russia's Chechnya, Lesbians Tell Of Suffocating Existence from RFERL, Sep 2017. "Relatives aren't only scared that their daughters might be lesbians. They're scared of the terrible shame. Public opinion in Chechnya is the primary court."
*A transgender life in Chechnya from Open Democracy, Jun 2017. "As reports of purges of gay men surfaced, Chechnya recently made international headlines. A transgender woman, now in exile, reflects on her place in Chechen society."
*Chechen transgender woman: on being hunted, the persecutions in Chechnya, and life before Kadyrov from Oc Media, Jun 2017."Once she reached adulthood, she realised that it wasn’t safe for her in Chechnya and moved to Moscow. After a group of Chechens learned of their compatriot who had changed sex, a hunt began for Sabrina. In the end, in fear for her life, Sabrina moved to the US."
*'Any day you can be taken': Inside what it's like to be gay in Chechnya from ABC News, Oct 2019. "I gave up then. I really thought they were going to kill me," Ricky said. "They said it would be better if I was a terrorist than gay."
*LGBT survivors of torture in Chechnya speak out from France 24 English, Apr 2017.
Gay Chechens report days of beatings and electro-shock torture at hands of Russian government-backed thugs, INDEPENDENT, 2 May 2017
Chechnya gay rights: Merkel urges Putin to intervene, BBC, 2 May 2017
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AS IMMORAL AS NAZI LAWS, RUSSIAN PUTIN ALLY SAYS, Newsweek,30 May 2017
How Can You Help Queer Chechens Under Attack? Start by Tagging the President on Instagram, OUTWARD, 20 April 2017
More than 100 gay men 'sent to prison camps' in Chechnya, INDEPENDENT, 11 April 2017
*Chechnya LGBT: Dozens 'detained in new gay purge' from BBC News, Jan 2019.
*LGBT community in Chechnya faces ‘new wave of persecution’: UN human rights experts from UN News, Feb 2019.