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The recent campaign against homosexual in Chechnya has led authorities to detain 100 gay men, and also 3 men killed in the anti-gay campaign. 

The recent crackdown on homosexuals had led police in arresting local television authorities and religious figures who are gays. The report has since been denied by Alvi Karimov, Chechnya’s leader, Ramzan Kadyrov spokesperson. 

                        

Alvi while speaking to  Interfax news agency,claims the recent information is "absolute lies and disinformation" and claims that “You cannot detain and persecute people who simply do not exist in the republic,” Alvi said that there are no gay people in Chechnya. He added;

If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn’t need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning.

Russia project director for the International Crisis Group, Ekaterina Sokirianskaia while speaking to the Guardian said that the report is true, and she has received information about the issue from different sources in the past 10 days. She said that authorities have denied the incident, and instead information has been coming in from second hand or third hand sources, she said;

I have heard about it happening in Grozny [the Chechen capital], outside Grozny, and among people of very different ages and professions. It’s next to impossible to get information from the victims or their families, but the number of signals I’m receiving from different people makes it hard not to believe detentions and violence are indeed happening.

The Chechnya community is a strictly conservative region, so unlike other cases where gay families or activist put pressure on government when gays go missing, those suspected to be homosexual are disowned by their own families. If the community get to know there is a gay member in a family, other member of that family will find it extremely difficult to get married due to "shame."

A St Petersburg LGBT centre has set up an anonymous hotline for gay people living in Chechnya to help them evacuate from the Republic.

 

 

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Mexico President,  Enrique Pena Nieto has proposed to legalise same-sex marriage across the country. The law which is only legal in the country's capital and few states in Mexico is now set to be acknowledged in the whole state.

Nieto seems to be walking in the path of previous Latin American country like Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia who recently legalised same sex-marriages in their countries.

                      

Mr Pena Nieto makes the announcement during the country National day against Homophobia. The President on Twitter said; 

For an inclusive Mexico that recognises in diversity one of its biggest strengths." He used a hashtag in Spanish saying: "Without homophobia"

Then add the rainbow gay pride flag as an overlay on his Twitter profile. 

                     

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Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk, Kim Davis, 48 has been jailed for her refusal to issue marriage licenses for gay couples in the county. Kim was jailed on Thursday afternoon by a US District Judge, David Bunning in Kentucky. Bunnign said Kim is free to go home when she is ready to issue the licenses to gay couples, a move she disagrees to take, and had said she won't accept a compromise that would let her out of jail. Attorneys for the plaintiffs proposed that she would go home  if she won't interfere with her deputies giving out the licenses, but she also refused.

                     

Kim, a Christian of Apostolic faith, though divorced thrice, was taken out of the courtroom led by the US Marshall and told the judge "Thank You". Since Kim had gone to Jail, 5 out of her six deputies had issued out marriage licenses to gay couples. The only one of the deputies who refused to give out the license is Kim's son, Nathan, but won't be facing any fine or jail time since the other deputies are already issuing the licenses.

Kim cannot be fired because she was an elected official, but she can resign. But Kim had also refused to tender her resignation. Judge Bunning said that the oath the county clerk had taken as a public servant supersedes any of her religious beliefs about gay marriages.

                          

    Jonathan Beebe-Franqui, left, and his husband Dwayne D. Beebe-Franqui embraced as they waited for Davies to arrive at the court but it is believed she slipped in via a back entrance

After the sentencing of Kim, Gay activist who had stayed in front of the courthouse in Ashland was happy with the news, and kept chanting, "Love Won", while Kim supporters broke into an impromptu rendition of "Amazing grace"

                

 

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Kentucky, USA: Some states in the USA have not aligned themselves to the supreme court ruling that allows for same sex marriage. The first state to go against the move after it was announced was the Texas state governor, as he believes marriage is done between a man and woman only.

         

In a video posted 2 days ago by homosexual couple in Rowan county, Kentucky shows a gay couple was recently denied their marriage license by an office worker in the county. David Moore and his fiance were seen standing outside the public building and said that a woman in the building that goes by name Kim Davies have been denying gay couple their marriage licenses, and they are also going to find out for themselves soon.

The video of what happened has now been seen in different places, and 4 gay couples are suing Kim Davies for refusing to issue marriage licenses for gay couples, even after the court ruling.

While a lot of office clerk has issued the licenses to gay couple, Kim Davies stood her ground for her own belief, she said :

  “It’s a deep-rooted conviction; my conscience won’t allow me to do that,. “It goes against everything I hold dear, everything sacred in my life.”

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