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Zelimkhan Bakaev
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Russian singer
Film & TV
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.
Known for
- Welcome to Chechnya — Self2020
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Grozny
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Residence
- Chechnya
- Significant event
- disappearance
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- date of birth
- 1992-04-23
- date of disappearance
- 2017-08-08
- date of death
- 2017-08-00
- sexual orientation
- homosexuality
- start of work period
- 2012-00-00
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
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