Aminat Lorsanova tells Sky News she was abused because of her atheism and her sexual orientation in the Russian republic.
Details began to emerge of mostly gay men being rounded up and tortured in secret prisons by Chechen law enforcement, of forced disappearances and honour killings.
A handful of gay men who managed to escape the republic and find asylum abroad have spoken out but the voices of Chechnya's LGBT women are rarely heard. "He pulled my shirt up and pulled down my skirt. He was beating me in the solar plexus with a thin rod for an hour, yelling the Koran in my ear. It was painful."
He said he had been treating Ms Lorsanova for psychiatric conditions but refused to comment further. He is named in the complaint she has filed with Russia's investigative committee. For a woman to have had any kind of involvement with law enforcement is considered a sullying of their purity."They usually don't get out of there," Ms Lapina says.She explains that what happened to Ms Lorsanova is typical."In Chechnya, they practice conversion therapy, exorcising genies, medical injections, psychotropic substances. This is not something new for us."
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