Publisher's Synopsis
"Although consensual sex between men was decriminalized in Kyrgyzstan in 1998, police target gay and bisexual men for violence and extortion. "They Said We Deserved This" finds that gay and bisexual men are subjected to a range of abuses at the hands of police in Kyrgyzstan, including physical, sexual, and psychological violence; arbitrary detention; and extortion under the threat of violence or of exposing victims' sexual orientation to friends and family. ... Victims are reluctant to report police abuses to the authorities, fearing retaliation or the disclosure of their sexual orientation to their family or employers by the police. Very few cases of ill-treatment and other crimes by police against gay men are investigated and even fewer perpetrators are brought to justice. The failure to hold police to account creates a climate of impunity which encourages further abuse. To put an end to police abuse of gay and bisexual men, the gover
