EU orders strict sanctions against Russian officials at the centre of Chechnya’s horrifying ‘gay purge’

The European Union has imposed strict sanctions on two Russian officials accused of persecuting LGBT+ people in Chechnya’s horrifying gay purge. As of Monday (22 March), the EU sanctioned Aiub Vakhaevich Kataev, a senior official at the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry in Chechnya, and Abuzaid Dzhandarovich...