Report: Russian police arrest 16 men over queer dating group on Russian social network VK, charging them with ‘extremism’
Police in Karachay-Cherkessia have arrested at least 16 men on criminal charges of organizing the activities of an extremist organization, the human rights group SK SOS reported April 30, citing a source.
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