Welcome to Chechnya

Name: Welcome to Chechnya
Genre: Documentary
Released: June 30, 2020
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 87

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RELEASE DATE: June 30, 2020

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Welcome To Chechnya

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HBO | Release Date (Streaming): June 30, 2020 | Not Rated

Summary: Searing urgency is a guiding force as Welcome to Chechnya shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2016, Chechnya’s tyrannical leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has waged a depraved operation to “cleanse the blood” of LGBTQ+Searing urgency is a guiding force as Welcome to Chechnya shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2016, Chechnya’s tyrannical leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has waged a depraved operation to “cleanse the blood” of LGBTQ+ Chechens, overseeing a government-directed campaign to detain, torture, and execute them. With no help from the Kremlin and only faint global condemnation of the violence, a vast and secretive network of activists takes matters into its own hands.… Expand

Director: David France

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 107 min

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