"You cannot arrest or repress people who just don't exist in the Republic. If such people existed in Chechnya, law enforcement would not have to worry about them, as their own relatives would have sent them to where they could never return."
— Alvi Karimov, spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, on reports that gay man have been detained and killed by Chechnyan authorities
— Alvi Karimov, spokesman for Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, on reports that gay man have been detained and killed by Chechnyan authorities