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Chechen Police ‘Kidnap’ Two Brothers in Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown

Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty ImagesMOSCOW — The Islamist insurgency in Chechnya was crushed long ago, but the harsh security services apparatus remained in place. Police routinely round up gay men, and reports of torture are well documented.In a new development, these police have now arrested ethnic Chechen gay men far from Chechnya. Security agents…

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Chechen Police ‘Kidnap’ Two Brothers in Anti-LGBTQ Crackdown

Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty ImagesMOSCOW — The Islamist insurgency in Chechnya was crushed long ago, but the harsh security services apparatus remained in place. Police routinely round up gay men, and reports of torture are well documented.In a new development, these police have now arrested ethnic Chechen gay men far from Chechnya. Security agents detained two brothers, 17-year-old Ismail Isayev and 20-year-old Salekh Magomadov, in a shelter in Nizhny Novgorod in central Russia earlier this month. The two brothers were active on social media, and posted LGBTQ and Pride symbols.Police brought both back to Chechnya by force, without any official allegations of a crime. Currently they are not allowed to see lawyers. Police depriving detainees of legal defense is a repressive method broadly used against opposition activists these days.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Liquid ‘white hats’ return $270M in Bitcoin as network prepares restart

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Six Egyptian Men Arrested Following Abduction and Sexual Assault Video

Security authorities in Giza have arrested six individuals, including five students and a delivery worker, following the viral spread of a social media video depicting the violent abduction of a young woman in broad daylight. Investigators tracked down the victim, who lives in the Al-Ahram area…

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PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Home News Grand Theft Auto VI PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe Also beware anything dubbed certainlynotavirusthisisgta6myboy.exe Image credit: Rockstar Games

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PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe

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PSA: In the latest GTA 6 leak’s aftermath, it’s not a good idea to download files with names like totallylegitgta6leakedbuild.exe

Also beware anything dubbed certainlynotavirusthisisgta6myboy.exe

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While scammers and other ne’er-do-wells leaning into the allure of playing GTA 6 as part of their efforts to spread malware isn’t anything new – cybersecurity companies have been issuing warnings about it for months – there appears to have been an uptick in such behaviour following the latest GTA 6 leak. With speculation rampant as to what exactly the hackers known as Cyberleek may have access to, now is not the time to be downloading any files claiming to be GTA 6.

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Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default

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