US finally places sanctions on Chechnya’s gay purge tyrant for ‘gross violations of human rights, including torture and killings’

The US has placed sanctions on the tyrannical leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who is accused of orchestrating a so-called ‘gay purge’. The leader of the autonomous Russian region, a key ally of Vladimir Putin, has largely ducked all accountability despite years of alarm from human rights groups over...