Petition is addressed to: Ziedlapas, Daugmales pag., Ķekavas nov., Latvia, LV-2124,Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya,Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, 136 East 67 Street, New York, N.Y. 10065, United States of America

This is a message for all the people of the world. For those of you who do not know me, I am Latvian human rights activist and defender currently being haunted by the Latvian pro-Kremlin law enforcement institutions.

The message I am giving you today is of very urgent importance. It has come to my attention that there are up to 6000 LGTB people, including women, being held prisoners in concentration camps in Chechnya (the Russian Federation).

All my life I have been an active member of the Latvian anti-fascist and anti-5G organizations – Gaismas Tīmeklis, Memory Water and Latvia Without Nazism movement, the organizations that are supported by the EU human rights protection institutions. In that capacity, I contacted the Latvian European Parliament members Tatjana Ždanoka and Nils Ušakovs in order to prepare the latter on these worrying matters. They have both agreed to collaborate with me on a campaign to free these Chechen LGTB members from the concentration camps in which they are imprisoned. As we speak, petitions are circulating worldwide to free these people.

I am asking the people all over the world to sign the following letter and send it to the following address – Ziedlapas, Daugmales pag., Ķekavas nov., Latvia, LV-2124, from where it will be forwarded on behalf of leader of the Latvian LGTB rights assosiation Aldis Gobzems to the permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya and United Nations Secetary-General Antonio Guterres. Honorable permanent representative of Russia to the United Nations

Vasily Alekseevich Nebenzya, 136 East 67 Street, New York, N.Y. 10065, United States of America

This letter is to urge you to address the situation of the up to 6000 LGTB people confined to political penal-labor camps, correctional or re-education centers, collection centers for low level criminals and labor training centers in Chechnya, the Russian Federation.

International investigation and scrutiny have revealed that these people are being incarcerated in violation of international law, as well as the laws of the Russian Federation, and held without trial. Furthermore, according to the latest international information available (since the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov refuses access to these camps by Russian and international officials), the people there are being beaten, tortured, raped, starved, killed and/or otherwise mistreated.

Please stop this situation immediately, grant these people refugee status, and allow them to leave your country and go to the European nations that have offered to take them.

While you are implementing this action, please also do the following:

• Allow the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the human rights and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture into these camps/centers to independently assess their conditions inside; • Cooperate with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees or other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to internally displaced persons, refugees, returning refugees, asylum seekers and stateless persons. Thank you. If there are any teachers or religious clergy out there who would like to make this a class/group project, please contact me (pasutit@memorywater.com).

Please reach into your heart, sign this petition, and help us free these LGTB people from the concentration camps. Thank you.

Human rights defender : Kristine Liepina