Proceeding contribution from Desmond Swayne (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 20 April 2017. It occurred during Urgent question on Persecution and Detention of LGBT Citizens: Chechnya.
Persecution and Detention of LGBT Citizens: Chechnya
Is there an element of reversion to type here, in that it was always a feature of totalitarian regimes to vilify minorities as a matter of routine political management? Equally, it was typical of the former Soviet Union to identify any person who posed a political threat, to brand them as gay and to detain them in a mental institution.
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- 2016-17
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- House of Commons chamber
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- Detainees Human rights Torture Chechnya LGBT+ people
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