Insir spoke to several Afghan gay men. One activist said he fears that gay people Afghanistan will be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban.
Contents:
- MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
- THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
- GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
- GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
- GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS
- AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
- DIISAN GAY, AFGAN JT KONFIRMASI AKAN NIKAH NGAN ROSSA
- ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
MEN OM AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GAY MUNY SAY THEY ARE LIVG THROUGH A 'NIGHTMARE' AND FEAR THAT THE TALIBAN WILL EXECUTE THEM AT ANY MOMENT
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Several gay Afghans spoke to Insir and scribed how they live fear of their life after the Taliban's victory.
THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
Afghan activists told Insir that even durg the prev ernments, gay men would be lured to their aths through social media. * afgan gay *
Unr the prev perd of Taliban le, the ant group executed gay men.
GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
One Afghan activist predicted gay people Afghanistan would be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban. "I jt hope that somebody and wak me up om this bad dream, " the 37-year-old gay Afghan told Insir durg a phone, who works for the Uned Natns, once enjoyed Afghanistan's vibrant "unrground" gay scene.
GAY AFGHAN: THE TALIBAN KILLED MY BOYIEND
Even though homosexualy was illegal, he said he felt relatively safe makg his weekly vis to a clanste karaoke bar Kabul to sg and dance wh other members of the untry's hidn LGBTQ muni.
GAY AFGHAN STUNT ‘MURRED BY TALIBAN’ AS ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE RIS
"It was fantastic and so much fun, " Rameen days, Rameen's life, like so many gay Afghans, has been turned upsi down. "If we get ught, the Taliban will kill , " he told Insir durg a phone Taliban is expected to implement a strgent terpretatn of Sharia law, which means homosexualy would be punishable by ath.
AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a judge om the radil Islamist group vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or by beg cshed by a ne-foot wall. Ghulam is so terrified of beg intified as gay and put to ath, that he has not left his home sce the Taliban took over. Sayed*, a 36-year-old gay man om northern Afghanistan's Balkh provce, told Insir via Facebook Msenger that he is also sperately seekg asylum om the new hardle Islamist, he said, has dramatilly changed for the worse the space of a week.
Homosexual sex has technilly been punishable by ath Afghanistan for s, but acrdg to the UK Country of Orig Report on Afghanistan, has not been applied sce the end of the Taliban's first regime 2001.
DIISAN GAY, AFGAN JT KONFIRMASI AKAN NIKAH NGAN ROSSA
"It's clear to me that as soon as the Taliban know that I am a gay man, they will kill me whout even thkg about , " he said. Sayed told Insir he dreams of one day livg thentilly as a gay man Canada.
‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
Activist Nemat Sadat fears that gay people Afghanistan will be "weed out and extermated" by the Taliban. Nemat Sadat, the first public figure Afghanistan to advote for LGBTQ rights, told Insir that he is helpg gay Afghans like Sayed apply for asylum and leave the was an anizer of a nascent LGBTQ rights movement Afghanistan while workg as a polil science profsor at the Amerin Universy of Afghanistan Kabul. 'It's not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out'He is urgg the ternatnal muny to act quickly to help vulnerable people pe persecutn at the hands of the new regime.
"It's not hyperbolic to say that gay people will get weed out and extermated by the Taliban, jt like the Nazis did, " he said. Hamid Zaher, 47, who was one of the first Afghan men to e out publicly, told Insir that while LGBTQ Afghans have always faced risks of vlence and imprisonment at the hands of the thori, those dangers pale parison to the btaly and tolerance of the left Afghanistan 2001 and, after livg Turkey, was able to claim asylum Canada said that, even unr the US-supported ernment, was "a very bad time" for gay men.
The msage to the policians, burecrats, and officials the Wt om the gay people of Afghanistan is clear.