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Contents:
- GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
- ‘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
GAY REFUGEE PLEADS FOR AMERINS TO HELP LGBT AFGHANS
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Jt last month, a Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild that gay men would be executed by beg cshed to ath. Given trends around the Middle East, [] North Ai… we n anticipate that homophobia, transphobia, will jt epen unr this regime. The Taliban’s Augt 2021 takeover of Afghanistan has led to ternatnal ncerns for the safety and livelihood of vulnerable populatns, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI) Afghans.
He is anizg a relotn fund for his iend Omid, a 25-year-old gay man based Kabul "so he n travel safely and legally to Turkey and beg his journey away om persecutn and the risk of beg killed for beg who he is.
"I've bee creasgly worried about young people like Omid, a law graduate livg Kabul as a gay man. A gay refugee who succsfully fled a natn unr siege by Islamists penned a heartfelt cry for actn for the Uned Stat to do somethg for the LGBT Afghani cizens who are now danger unr Taliban le.
‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
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. * gay afghan refugees *
Death by stong or cshg wh walls was rerved for the most heo crim, homosexualy beg nsired one of them. Faraz, who asked to be intified by only one name, is a 25-year-old gay man who said he fears for himself and his three sons. “The Taliban is search of the gay people.
Among those seekg to flee are LGBTQ Afghans like N and homosexualy has long been crimalized Afghanistan, advot fear the suatn for gay Afghans will bee even more perilo unr the Taliban, who may choose to apply the ath penalty for same-sex nduct, which they reportedly did durg their first stt power om ’s nsired ‘at risk’? Homosexualy was crimalized unr the prev Afghan ernment, and LGBTQ people reported facg vlence and harassment, cludg om state officials.
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
“LGBTQI persons are uniquely vulnerable to forced displacement and are targets of state-sponsored homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, ” he said. Currently, at least 67 untri crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct, of which the ath penalty may be applied up to 11, cludg Afghanistan, acrdg to a report by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) for those who are able to flee their untri of orig, challeng rema. Jt last month, a Taliban judge threatened that gay men will be cshed to ath by topplg walls onto them should the group rega ntrol of are also ncerned that this impendg crisis will lead to a spike requt for help.
NEW YORK/LONDON (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - It was never easy beg gay or transgenr Afghanistan. “If I fd a visa and a untry giv me permissn to leave, of urse I will risk everythg to get out, ” said one gay Afghan stunt, whose name was whheld for his protectn.
SECRETS AND FEARRabow Railroad, a Canadian-based LGBT+ advocy group, has urged ernments to help gay and trans Afghan refuge.