According to Novaya Gazeta, independent media and human rights groups, homosexuals are sent to clandestine camps in Chechnya, which one eyewitness likened to a concentration camp, the first such camps specifically for gay and bisexual men since the Holocaust in Nazi Germany [REF].
According to The Guardian, in an interview with an escapee, 30 to 40 people are detained in one room, being beaten and tortured with electricity [REF].