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Of Purges and Prescience: On David France’s LGBTQ Documentary, ‘Welcome to Chechnya’
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Of Purges and Prescience: On David France’s LGBTQ Documentary, ‘Welcome to Chechnya’

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 / 4 August 2020

The ongoing persecution of LGBTQ individuals in Chechnya, or anywhere in the world, should come as no surprise, or "amazement". It's a motif undergirding the history of civil society that certain people will always be identified for extermination.

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020

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 / 8 June 2020

This year's 'digital edition' of Human Rights Watch's consistently engaging and enraging collection of documentaries is at its best when spotlighting the activists fighting to make humanity more human.