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THIS NEW MOVIE TELLS THE TORTURED LOVE STORY OF TWO GAY IRAQI SOLDIERS
Armed groups Iraq abduct, rape, torture, and kill lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, wh impuny, Human Rights Watch said a report released today wh IraQueer. The police arrt and also rry out vlence agast them. * iraq lgbt *
Another, "Lah", a 27-year-old gay man, told how his boyiend was killed ont of him. "You may also be terted :Media ptn, How the persecutn of gay people took hold post-Saddam IraqMore on this story.
(Baghdad) – Armed groups Iraq abduct, rape, torture, and kill lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, wh impuny, Human Rights Watch said a report released today wh IraQueer. One 27-year-old gay man om Baghdad scribed how his boyiend was tortured by four members of an armed group ont of him May 2020.
On September 4, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Government Iraq proposed an od bill to Parliament that, if passed, would punish any dividual or group who advot for the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. * iraq lgbt *
© 2022 John Holm for Human Rights WatchZoran, a 25-year-old gay man om Sulaymaniyah, said he was sexually asslted by two members of the Asayish while he was on a date wh a man who tricked him after they met on a same-sex datg applitn.
© 2022 John Holm for Human Rights WatchLah, a 27-year-old gay man om Baghdad, said he watched as armed group members abducted his boyiend om his hoe, tortured and killed him. © 2022 John Holm for Human Rights WatchKarim, an 18-year-old gay man om Najaf, said he was 17 when police Baghdad arrted him, verbally and physilly abed him, sexually harassed him, and subjected him to a forced anal exam.
I listened to a 27-year-old gay man scribe how his boyiend was tortured ont of him. The story of one 21-year-old gay man stayed wh me. (Beit) – A urt the Kurdistan regn of Iraq alt pennt civil society a blow on May 31, 2023, by orrg the closure of Rasan Organizatn over “s activi the field of homosexualy, ” Human Rights Watch said today.
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Rasan is the only human rights anizatn willg to volly support lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights the Kurdistan Regn of Iraq (KRI), addn to s work on women’s rights and domtic vlence. The urt orr stat that “the expert mtee nfirmed that the logo of the anizatn is a plete exprsn of s activi the field of homosexualy.
The closure is the rult of a lawsu filed agast Rasan Febary 2021 by Omar Kolbi, a member of the Kurdistan Parliament, who acced Rasan of “promotg homosexualy, ” and “engagg activi that fy social norms, tradns, and public moraly.
In September 2022, members of the Kurdistan Regnal Parliament troduced the “Bill on the Prohibn of Promotg Homosexualy, ” which would punish any dividual or group that advot for the rights of LGBT people.