Gay and trans people Afghanistan already faced stigma, but now even a ll om an unknown number sparks fear
Contents:
- ‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
- ‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
- GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
‘A VIRTUAL ATH SENTENCE’: GAY AFGHANS BRACE FOR UNCERTA FUTURE UNR TALIBAN
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Rehmat, a gay man, said: “Our liv are danger. ”There are mours that the Taliban are trickg gay men to meetg them by ntactg them on social media wh a promise of pe om Afghanistan. This has ed panic across the untry’s gay muny, many of whose members are hidg.
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.
”Mhtar, a gay man, thks he will be “forced to emigrate illegal ways to pe ath and hunger” the g weeks. (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.
‘JT LIKE THE NAZIS’: GAY AFGHANS FACE ‘EXTERMATN’ UNR TALIBAN
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 afghans *
” 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. He had to pass through checkpots and at one, an armed man shouted, “You are an izak, ” a rogatory term for gay people.
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.
You are gay. A regime which one of s judg told a reporter last month that gay men will be executed by havg walls toppled on them once the Taliban are back power.
GAY AFGHANISTAN, AFTER THE TALIBAN. HOMOSEXUALY AS TRADN
The Taliban ntrol the airport and borrs. One gay man has already been killed and dismembered as LGBTQ people try sperately to flee the untry. * gay afghans *
Nemat Sadat, a gay Afghan man and thor of the crilly acclaimed book “The Carpet Weaver, ” was forced out of his teachg posn at Amerin Universy of Afghanistan Kabul and eventually fled the untry 2013.
After mors began circulatg that Sadat was gay, the Taliban issued a manifto targetg the universy and the Afghan ernment prsured the school to fire him.