Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWithin two weeks of David France reading an article in The New Yorker about the persecution of LGTBQ people in Chechnya, he was on a plane headed to Moscow.It’s there that he first met the men and women who are featured in his new documentary “Welcome to Chechnya,” which premieres Tuesday on HBO.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the autonomous region of Russia, enacted a campaign in 2017 to find, imprison, torture and sometimes kill LGBTQ Chechens.
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