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The president asked for “forgiveness” of the country’s past treatment of LGBTI people.

More than a year after the first reports of Chechnya’s ‘gay purge’, most of the men taken by authorities have still not been found and are feared to be imprisoned or dead.

Missing since August, the singer is feared to be a victim of the gay purge that Chechnya’s officials continue to deny.

He was reportedly detained and abused for two weeks.

Sales are going to Canadian charity Rainbow Road, which was formed to help queer people escape persecution in Chechnya.

President Ramzan Kadyrov has called on families of gay men to kill them despite ‘honour killings’ being illegal in Russia and Chechnya.

While gay men are most at risk, all LGBT people in Chechnya could be targeted, according to recent reports.

A Russian newspaper claims the men were killed in a mass execution in January after being held without charge for several weeks.

The Argun prison has reportedly been the base of widespread persecution of gay and bisexual men in the region.

Protests have taken place in 27 countries to date.