Over the course of his filmmaking career, David France has made urgent political documentaries about LGBTQ rights, first with the AIDS pandemic and the founders of ACT UP (the Oscar-nominated “How to ...
A suspect shot dead by police after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in an attack near Paris was an 18-year-old Moscow-born Chechen refugee, officials said Saturday. France's anti-terrorism ...
A Chechen refugee deported from France to Russia now faces potential torture or even death after being handed over to Chechnya’s security services, Amnesty International said on April 11. The French ...
A Chechen asylum seeker controversially deported from France to Russia has been sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison on alleged weapons charges. Magomed Gadayev, an opponent of Chechen strongman Ramzan ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare. The Russian republic has never been very hospitable to gays, but in ...
The new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya” available on HBO and HBO Max, looks at the dangers for LGBTQ people in Russia’s Chechen Republic. To document human rights abuses in Chechnya, filmmaker David ...
In David France’s documentary Welcome to Chechnya, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker puts an urgent and, at times, a difficult-to-watch lens on the repressive and violent treatment of the LGBTQ community ...
A suspect shot dead by police after the beheading of a history teacher near Paris was an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services who posted a grisly claim of responsibility on ...