Afghanistan Gay Man Raped and Beaten by Taliban, Lured on Social Media

Contents:

• THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
• 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 AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
• AFGHANISTAN: GAY MAN KABUL 'RAPED AND BEATEN' BY TALIBAN AFTER BEG TRICKED TO MEETG
• ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
• GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
• GAY MEN AFGHANISTAN SAY LIFE UNR TALIBAN 'NIGHTMARE,' ULD BE KILLED ON THE SPOT
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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

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. 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. However, sce the Taliban takeover, most gay Afghans have gone to, a gay man, said: “We don’t hang out together any more the way we ed to.

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

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, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN

Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Afghanistan, and others who do not nform to rigid genr norms, have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv sce the Taliban took full ntrol of the untry on Augt 15, 2021.

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

”[3] A Taliban judge told the German tabloid Bild shortly before the fall of Kabul, “For homosexuals, there n only be two punishments: eher stong, or he mt stand behd a wall that will fall down on him. ”[4] A manual issued by the Taliban’s Mistry of Vice and Virtue 2020 stat that relig lears shall prohib same-sex relatns and that “strong allegatns” of homosexualy shall be referred to the mistry’s district manager for adjuditn and punishment. Gay: A synonym for homosexual many parts of the world; this report, ed specifilly to refer to the sexual orientatn of a man whose primary sexual and romantic attractn is toward other men.

Most terviewe scribed themselv terms bt translated as gay or bisexual men or transgenr women, but we also terviewed a small number of lbian women, transgenr men, and a person who intified as asexual.

Unr the prev ernment, there was at least one Afghan civil society anizatn workg wh gay men and trans women, while we were unable to intify and ntact any formal anizatns that worked wh lbian and bisexual women or trans men. Ali earned a livg as a makp artist at a queer-iendly bety salon and picked up extra sh as a dancer a karaoke bar where gay men gathered. A male uple fled their cy together after several gay iends of theirs were killed; the men believed the were targeted killgs rried out by the Taliban, although they were not certa whether their iends had been killed bee of their sexualy, bee they had participated an anti-Taliban prott, or both.

‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN

They blamed Hamid, sayg they had heard mors that Hamid was gay, and feared their son might have been killed by Taliban members or supporters bee of their relatnship. “Almost everyone is locked their rooms and n't go outsi, ” said a project manager of an anizatn that provid medil and mental health servic for gay men and trans women.

GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS

He passed through the first checkpot whout trouble, but at the send, Ramiz said, one of the armed men shouted after him g a rogatory term for gay people, “You are an izak!

The danger of journeys to Kabul is illtrated by the experience of a small group of trans women and gay men who cid to travel to the pal om their home cy early November. [39] At least four gay men and trans women said they were ntacted over Facebook or the gay datg app Grdr by people offerg to help them get out of the untry wh the goal of extractg personal rmatn or trickg them to meetg. Sajjad G., a 21-year-old gay man one of Afghanistan’s major ci, posted vios of himself dancg on TikTok; he also worked as a mol and appeared mic vios onle.

Ihsan put on a blue chadar (shawl) and snuck out the back drsed as a woman, and then fled the cy wh his wife, who he said did not know he was gay nor about his work.

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

Male homosexualy has a well-documented history Afghanistan, and love between men has been celebrated Afghan lerature gog back hundreds of years. Attus towards homosexualy—as well as sexual vlence agast men and boys—are heavily shaped by bacha bazi (“boy play”), a longstandg abive practice—distct om nsensual same-sex relatns— which femized, pre-pubcent boys are held a form of sexual slavery by warlords, police manrs, and other powerful men. “In school, if someone knows [you are gay] they would say, ‘If you don’t do this wh me [a sexual act] I will tell people that you’re gay, ’” Hakim S.

"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. 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. "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.

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. 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.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

Two more siar stori about the recurrence of Pashtun homosexualy, om the New York Tim (Febary 2002) and Tim of London (January 2002), n be found the Afghanistan News & Reports 2002-04.