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Australia Urged To Sanction Chechen Officials Accused Of ‘Gay Purge’
An online petition has urged Australia to impose sanctions on two senior government officials known to persecute gay people in Chechnya. The online petition by the Victorian Pride Lobby and addressed to Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Women, Marise Payne, has received around 1,500 signatures. The petition has asked Australia to impose sanctions on Ayub Kataev, head of the Russian Internal Affairs Ministry in Chechnya, a known persecutor of LGBTQ+ people and Abuzayed Vismuradov, the commander of the Terek Special Rapid Responses Team.
