In Chechnya, in fact, secret prisons operate in different cities in which gays are illegally detained and tortured.

This is stated in the story of the American channel Vice News, whose journalists went to the republic and removed the place of the alleged secret prison for homosexuals.

So, in the city of Argun the journalist of the TV channel talked with the head of the local police Ayub Kataev, who in the film is called the head of the secret prison.

Kataev rejected all accusations and called the history of human rights defenders and Chechen gays a lie about persecution in the republic.

Showing journalists "storage space," he draws attention to the fact that inside there are no lattices on the windows, the rooms do not look as if they were being held in someone, and despite the dusty floor, there are no traces.

Kataev also demonstratively builds soldiers and asks them whether he gave orders to detain or torture gays. The soldiers answered in chorus "no".

At the same time, one of the interlocutors of journalists, whose name is not called, found out a room from the plot and said that he was tortured by an electric shock.

He stressed that he was "200% sure" that Kataev personally had forced him to kneel and beat.

Earlier, human rights organization Human Rights Watch published a report in which it says that the "right hand" of Chechnya's leader Ramzak Kadyrov personally observed the massacre of gay men in Chechnya.

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