Zelim Bakaev

Zelim Bakaev

Born: April 23, 1992
Died: August 8, 2017
in Grozny, Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Zelimkhan Khoussainovich Bakaev (Russian: Зелимхан Хусаинович Бакаев; born 23 April 1992) is a Chechen singer. He disappeared in Chechnya on 8 August 2017, while on a brief visit to the region to attend his sister's wedding. He is widely believed to have been abducted, tortured, and murdered by the Chechen authorities as part of their systematic persecution of homosexual men.

Movies for Zelim Bakaev...

Welcome to Chechnya
Title: Welcome to Chechnya
Character: Self
Released: January 26, 2020
Type: Movie
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.