Gay Iranian man ad alleged 'honor killg,' rights group says

Contents:

• KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED
• GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP
• SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA
• GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS
• MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR
• TWO GAY MEN ARE “MORTAL DANGER” AFTER BEG ARRTED BY RSIAN THORI
• GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

KENYAN GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST IS KILLED

This is a hate crime has homophobia wrten all over and sickens me that this is how we start this year. Homosexualy is taboo Kenya and across much of Ai, and gay people often face discrimatn or persecutn. Attempts to overturn Brish lonial-era laws banng homosexualy Kenya have proven unsuccsful, and gay sex remas a crime wh penalti that clu imprisonment of up to 14 years.

Ai|Kenyan Gay Rights Activist Is Killed ADVERTISEMENTEdw Chiloba’s body was dumped on the roadsi by a movg vehicle the untry’s wt. Police have arrted his iend and are pursug two others the Leteipa/Associated PrsNAIROBI, Kenya — A gay activist and fashn signer was murred and his body found stuffed si a metal box Kenya, the police said on Friday, another episo that raised qutns about dangers and discrimatn faced by gay people across the East Ain Chiloba’s body was found the box after was dropped by the si of the road om a movg vehicle wh no license plate Uas Gishu unty the untry’s wt.

GAY MAN KILLED, ANOTHER CRILLY JURED GRDR MEETUP

The pennt Kenya Human Rights Commissn lled his killg “reprehensible” and “eply unjt” and said was worried about the latg vlence targetg gay Kenyans.

SERIAL KILLER WHO PREYED ON GAY MEN, WAS DUBBED 'I-95 KILLER' IS EXECUTED FLORIDA

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s beg mon Kenya — evince of a growg epimic of vlence the untry, ” the anizatn said a is not illegal to intify as a homosexual Kenya, a lonial-era law crimaliz nsensual gay sex as “agast the orr of nature, ” wh those ught facg up to 14 years prison. Arrts and prosecutn unr the laws are rare, but activists say they enable homophobia, and expose members of L.

GAY IRANIAN MAN AD ALLEGED 'HONOR KILLG,' RIGHTS GROUP SAYS

Chiloba was a fashn signer and mol who often spoke up about gay rights, and how clivy and diversy were at the heart of his brand.

Body of gay activist dumped EldoretEarly this year, rints of the Mogombet area, Kapseret, Uas Gishu unty were left nfed after unknown people dropped a posg body.

It would later emerge that the body belonged to gay activist Edw Chiloba who his bt iend allegedly ATTENTION: check out news exactly for YOU ➡️ click on “Remend for you” and enjoy! A Detro man has been charged an attempted robbery and shootg that left one gay man ad and another crilly jured.

MATTHEW SHEPARD: THE LEGACY OF A GAY LLEGE STUNT 20 YEARS AFTER HIS BTAL MURR

The cint is the latt a strg of attacks agast gay men targeted through a popular LGBTQ datg app.

TWO GAY MEN ARE “MORTAL DANGER” AFTER BEG ARRTED BY RSIAN THORI

"The allegatns are that social media ntacts were ed to target, ntact, rob, fatally shoot one gay man and serly wound another gay man, " Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said a statement.

”Gay men are routely targeted on datg apps like Grdr, where privacy and safety ncerns abound. In May of this year, two Dallas men were charged by a feral grand jury wh "nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg and rjackg" after lurg ne gay men through the popular app to an apartment plex and subsequently kidnappg, sexually assltg and robbg them.

"The dictment further alleg that Jenks and Henry ed bodily jury to four victims bee of their actual and perceived sexual orientatn, " a Jtice Department statement year, followg a siar cint, thori charged four men wh feral hate crim for a seri of North Texas asslts and robberi after they posed as gay and manipulated victims to divulgg their home addrs via the app 2017. The men, whose ag ranged om 19 to 21, were sentenced to between 10 and 20 years prison for breakg to victims' hom, tyg them up wh tape, physilly assltg them and yellg gay slurs at them. Perhaps one of the most well-known gay datg-app predators is Stephen Port — a man dubbed "The Grdr Killer" — who was sentenced to life prison 2016 for dggg, rapg and killg four men he met through the app.

GAY MAN TORTURED AND KILLED CANCúN AFTER REVEALG HE WAS LIVG WH HIV

"This is why we see a rise hate crim durg Pri Month and creas of hate crim 'gay-iendly' neighborhoods, " Coston said. “There are people impersonatg romantic partners and iends untri where beg gay is illegal, then threateng to out the er, ” said Ian Holloway, an assistant profsor of social welfare the Universy of California, Los Angel, Lk School of Public 2018, there were wispread reports of Egyptian thori and rints who ed gay datg apps to entrap and persecute gay men. "For people livg the areas or untri where homosexualy is crimalized, apps n be a way to build muny.

Rearch suggts acceptance of homosexualy is gradually creasg Kenya, but remas a taboo subject for many. The untry's film board has banned two films for their portrayals of gay liv recent ath drew nmnatn om several human rights groups, cludg the Internatnal Commissn of Jurists Kenya sectn, which lled for the speedy vtigatn and apprehensn of those behd his killg.