Afghanistan: Gay man burned by Taliban says ternatnal LGBT+ muny has ‘fot about ’

Contents:

• TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS
• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN BURNED BY TALIBAN SAYS TERNATNAL LGBT+ MUNY HAS ‘FOT ABOUT ’
• 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
• GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT

TALIBAN SHOT GAY AFGHAN MAN AD AND SENT GRAPHIC FOOTAGE OF THE MURR TO HIS LOVED ON, BOYIEND SAYS

A gay Afghan man was kidnapped and shot to ath by the Taliban, acrdg to activists who knew him, Pk News was the first to Sabouri of Kabul, Afghanistan, died on Augt 5, activists said.

In a statement to Insir, Nemat Sadat, Roshaniya's executive director, said: "Hamed Sabouri was a gay man wh big dreams that have now been shattered.

"Sadat said Sabouri, who had wanted to be a doctor, had "endured discrimatn his whole life for beg gay and his life me to an abpt end wh no one there to help him. "Bahar (his nickname, ed to protect his inty), a gay Afghan man a relatnship wh Sabouri, was one of the recipients of the vio.

THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT

Bahar scribed his former boyiend as a "very kd boy" who was "btally killed" bee of his said he thought Sabouri was jokg when he told him July that the Taliban was targetg him and was " danger" for beg gay. The Taliban raped and beat a gay man after dupg him to meetg them, a report om ITV outlet said that Hanan, a psdonym given to protect his inty, had been speakg to a man on social media who promised to help him fd a safe way out of LGBTQ people have been sperately tryg to flee the untry followg the Taliban agreed to meet the man Kabul after speakg for three weeks onle, who unbeknownst to him were actually Taliban men. Insir recently spoke to men om Afghanistan's secret gay muny, who said they are livg through a "nightmare" and fear of their futur unr Taliban le.

In July, German newspaper Bild reported that a Taliban judge vowed to sentence gay men to ath by stong or beg cshed by a ne-foot activists told Insir that gay men would be lured to their aths through social media even durg the prev ernments.

AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG

"Social media was basilly ed by the ernment to create honey traps to ba gay and bisexual men, " LGBTQ activist Nemat Sadat told Insir. This was unr Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, " he Zaher, an Afghan thor and gay rights activist, told Insir that gay people would often vanish after meetg up wh men they met on social media, who turned out to be ernment officials warned that the Taliban were likely to e the same tactics. He is gay, a nvert to Christiany and a member of the Hazara ethnic mory – three groups that have been historilly persecuted by the Taliban.

In public statements July, one Taliban judge said there were only two punishments for homosexualy – stong or beg cshed unr a toppled wall. “He was threateng to jump off a buildg bee he thought would be a ls paful way to die than gettg ught and behead by the Taliban as a gay man.

“The Taliban is well known to have executed many LGBTQ people when was power and there have been reports of gay men beg murred sce took over Augt this year, ” said Aws Jubair, director of the Aman Project, a Turkey-based group that advot for the LGBTQ muny the Middle East.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

Report by ITV News digal journalist Jocelyn Evans"Two people raped him, they beat him, and then mand his father's number so they uld tell him his son was gay.

"In Taliban-ntrolled Afghanistan, this is the realy for LGBT+ people livg the victim, we'll ll Hanan to protect his inty, had been talkg to a man on social media for three weeks before agreeg to meet, a gay man terrified sce the Taliban took ntrol of the untry, had been promised a safe way out of the was ceived - two members of the Taliban met him and rried out their btal survived but is livg silence, shock, and shame unr a regime tent on not jt nyg, but extguishg the existence of him and we who are like him. Image source, Getty ImagBefore the Taliban uprisg Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangero. If he'd spoken about his sexualy to the wrong person then, Abdul uld have been arrted and taken to urt for his sexualy, unr Afghan sce the Taliban seized ntrol of major ci Afghanistan last week, Abdul tells Rad 1 Newsbeat his sexualy beg revealed would now have him "killed on the spot" Taliban are a ary group who have taken ntrol of the untry, and are known to enforce extreme Islamic the Taliban's terpretatn of Sharia Law, homosexualy is strictly prohibed and punishable by last time they were power Afghanistan, between the late 90s and 2001, 21-year-old Abdul hadn't been born.

Details magaze discsed the homosocial standards of much of Islamic culture, based on separatn of the genrs, and reviewed Trolley Prs’ 2003 book “Taliban, ” which photographer Thomas Dworzak prented imag of effemate Taliban warrrs that he unearthed. ” I wanted to go to Kandahar bee s homosexual reputatn seemed most pronounced, and Mohammed’s stori about the cy volved relatnships between grown men, rather than a man wh a youth, as seemed more mon elsewhere.

GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

At the pool, when I qutned the swimmers through my translator about the Taliban’s notns about body image, several ma a joke of the qutn, claimg that the old regime was ma up of gay men––Kandahar “playboys” as they lled them––who loved to see naked, even as Afghan men joked about the Taliban beg gay, they did not seem terribly put off by the subject of homosexualy.

The owner Wais, an Afghan Amerin om New Jersey now back his homeland, knew I was vtigatg Kabul’s gay si, but I was not out to his staff.

AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN BURNED BY TALIBAN SAYS TERNATNAL LGBT+ MUNY HAS ‘FOT ABOUT ’

He played wh the mcl on my arms, parg them to his own, his other hand bbg his was when the 20-year-old man simply blurted out, “Munir said you like to do homosexual thgs. I don’t thk I’ll fet those nights Munir’s hoe, but provid I thk only a ht at what homosocial and homosexual behavr means Afghanistan. A gay man was executed Afghanistan by members of the Taliban recently, who then sent vio of the horrific murr to the man's fay.

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

"Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan, " Bahar, a gay man and member of Behht Collective, told the outlet, also addg that, "Taliban terrorists are worse than wild animals. Some gay men the untry have been scbbg or even letg their social media acunts, as the Taliban will regularly search for profil wh LGBTQ+ ntent.

"Sadat, an activist who helps gay men flee across the borr to neighborg Pakistan, said he has chosen to stay the untry and help others pe the year, a gay man g the psdonym Gabir reported his boyiend had been seized by the Taliban. Earlier this year, a gay nonbary person reported they felt "alone" after the Taliban tortured and stabbed them 18 tim wh a knife.

GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT

"The ath of Hamed Sabouri is further proof that the Taliban will not stop until they eradite all gay people om Afghanistan, " Sadat said. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.