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ILGA World Legal Survey: Homosexuality in Chechnya [ID 16137]

"The Chechen Republic Ichkeriya is reportedly implementing its own separate criminal code which punishes consenting same sex acts between men by caning and even by death. " (Amnesty International report on Sexual Relations between Men in the CIS - ILGA Euroletter 54, October 1997) Le Seminaire Gai: Application of Sharia law in the Chechen Republic, for both men and women. Article 148 provides for whipping, stoning, and the death penalty. 4.Feb.99 The Council of Europe reports the signature by President Aslan Maskhadov of decrees aimed at imposing on the Chechen Republic a new Constitution based on Sharia law. (Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly web site)"