“The Taliban regime is tly the dark ag for Afghan LGBTQ people,” a 21-year-old gay artist Kabul said.
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- 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
- ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ 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
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 en afghanistan *
Gay Afghanistan. Several gay Afghans spoke to Insir and scribed how they live fear of their life after the Taliban's victory.
Unr the prev perd of Taliban le, the ant group executed gay men. 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.
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. "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.
‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
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 is so terrified of beg intified as gay and put to ath, that he has not left his home sce the Taliban took over. "If I had permissn to get a visa to go to another untry, I would not stay here for another send, " he more: Surreal vios appear to show armed Taliban fighters ridg bumper rs and a merry-go-round followg their takeover of AfghanistanSayed*, 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.
"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 told Insir he dreams of one day livg thentilly as a gay man Canada.