Afghan activists told Insir that even durg the prev ernments, gay men would be lured to their aths through 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
- GAY UNR THE TALIBAN
- GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
- TALIBAN CUTS GAY MAN TO PIEC TO ‘SHOW WHAT THEY DO WH GAY PEOPLE’
- GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
- TALIBAN-NTROLLED AFGHANISTAN WILL ‘CSH GAY MEN TO ATH WH 10FT WALLS’, WARNS JUDGE
- ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
THE TALIBAN RAPED AND BEAT A GAY MAN KABUL AFTER TRICKG HIM TO A MEETG WH A PROMISE OF PE OM AFGHANISTAN, SAYS REPORT
Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today. * gay taliban *
(New York) – Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not nform to rigid genr norms Afghanistan have faced an creasgly sperate suatn and grave threats to their safety and liv unr the Taliban, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Actn Internatnal said a report released today. 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.
” A manual issued by the Taliban 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. A gay man said that Taliban members taed him at a checkpot, beat him, and gang-raped him, tellg him, “From now on anytime we want to be able to fd you, we will. The parents returned to Hamid’s hoe, sayg they had heard mors that Hamid was gay, and feared their son might have been killed bee of their relatnship.
GAY UNR THE TALIBAN
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GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
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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. 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.
TALIBAN CUTS GAY MAN TO PIEC TO ‘SHOW WHAT THEY DO WH GAY PEOPLE’
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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.
GAY AFGHANISTAN: HOMOEROTICISM AMONG KABUL'S WARRRS
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.
"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.
TALIBAN-NTROLLED AFGHANISTAN WILL ‘CSH GAY MEN TO ATH WH 10FT WALLS’, WARNS JUDGE
”For the report, released Tuday night, the rearchers terviewed 60 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Afghans, most their 20s, om October to December of last year. A few weeks after Taliban forc overtook Afghanistan’s pal, Kabul, Augt, a 20-year-old gay man reported that Taliban members had taed him at a checkpot.
‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
“A cisgenr gay or bisexual male, who uld grow a beard, who n look like the Taliban, who uld wear their clothg, who uld drs like them … they won’t even be qutned, ” said Sadat, who told NBC News that he has spoken wh over 200 Afghans who have been targeted or tortured by the Taliban sce Augt. 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.