Yes Duplicity: Irish State, Give Queer Chechens Asylum Now

Ferd
Tue, 02 May 2017 08:00:00 +0000
International solidarity, Islam, Marriage equality, LGBT, Repression, Religion, International, Opinion, Analysis

Will the Irish state offer asylum to queer men in Chechnya (and, in fact, all queer people there) who are enduring a state-lead cam paign of terror and persecution of the gravest nature, or are queer people's lives another vote-catcher?

We described both what is happening in Chechnya and the Dublin counter-demo in detail here, as well as warning against these atrocities being seized upon for an anti-Muslim agenda.