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Lesbian Afghan teen faces being tortured and stoned to death along with trans friend 'who confessed she is not a Muslim' after Taliban caught them trying to flee the country

Two young LGBT rights activists in Afghanistan face torture and being stoned to death by the Taliban after trying to leave the country...

Two LGBTQ+ women being ‘tortured daily’ after being detained by the Taliban

Thursday 20 March has become an important date for Parwen Hussaini...

Two LGBTQ+ women in ‘grave danger’ after being arrested by Taliban in Afghanistan

Two LGBTQ+ women are said to be in “grave danger” after they were arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan...

طالبانو د کابل په هوایي ډګر کې یوه همجنس خوښې نجلۍ او د هغې بهرنی ملګری نیولی دی

د برېټانیا اینډیپینډنټ ورځپاڼې راپور ورکړی، چې د کابل په هوايي ډګر کې د طالبانو له لوري یوه همجنس خوښې نجلۍ او د هغې بهرنی ملګری نیول شوي، چې غوښتل یې ایران ته پرواز وکړي، خو د دوی له ډلې درېیمه یې پر سفر بریالۍ شوې ده...

Concern grows for safety of Afghan woman and trans friend detained by Taliban from Kabul airport

Maryam Ravish and Maeve Alcina Pieescu arrested shortly before taking flight to Tehran last week Arpan Rai...

LGBTQ+ Afghans ‘suffer sexual and physical abuse’ in detention under the Taliban

LGBTQ+ Afghans have suffered sexual and physical abuse in detention centres under the Taliban, a CNN investigation has uncovered...

‘My whole body was praying for my death’: LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies

It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August...

گفت‌وگو با نعمت سادات، فعال جامعه دگرباشان افغانستان

سازمان رنگین‌کمان افغانستان با نشر گزارشی اعلام کرد که افراد ال‌جی‌بی‌تی‌کیو در زندان‌های طالبان مورد شکنجه و تجاوز جنسی قرار می‌گیرند...

Far from home: Afghan refugees finding new life in Canada

40 000 Afghan refugees have settled in Canada since the Taliban's swift and dramatic return to power in Afghanistan in 2021...

تسلط طالبان و تیره‌ترشدن زندگی دگرباشان جنسی در افغانستان

بازگشت طالبان برای صدف کوکو، زنی تراجنسیتی مثل طنین‌انداختن زنگ خطر بود...

Life for Afghanistan’s LGBTs Was Already Hard, Then the Taliban Came

For Sadaf Coco, a transgender woman, the news of the Taliban’s return was a panic alarm...

صدف پیش از این در کندهار و تخار می رقصید

صدف با دوست ‌پسرش به فرانسه رسید...

قتل یک ترانس جندر افغان در پاکستان

قتل یک ترانس جندر افغان در پاکستان گفت‌وگو با نعمت‌ سادات، فعال مدنی ال جی بی تی افغان...

Stories of terror – and hope – from the Afghanistan LGBTQ+ community

It’s been nearly two years since the UK government pledged to evacuate Afghan nationals who aided British forces and those most at risk of persecution following the Taliban’s invasion of Kabul...

PinkNews Awards 2022: Trans cyclist Emily Bridges and Chocolat author Joanne Harris among winners

The PinkNews Awards 2022 came back with a bang this year, with a plethora of deserving winners and iconic moments...

LGBTQ Afghans 'hiding and screaming in silence' says activist

Afghan activist and author Nemat Sadat talks to Bianna Golodryga about the plight of LGBTQ people in Afghanistan...

Stepping out with pride

Much like the protagonist of his debut novel The Carpet Weaver, published in 2019, Nemat Sadat, Afghanistan's first openly gay activist, may still be trying to find his place in the face of vicious persecution, but this time, he has chosen to be the ...

Deccan Herald

The Deccan Herald recently hosted a Facebook Live session titled “The Taliban Takeover and Afghan LGBTQIA Rights,” shedding light on the dire situation faced by the LGBTQIA community in Afghanistan following the Taliban's return to power...

Angry and afraid, Afghanistan’s LGBTQ community say they’re being hunted down after Taliban takeover

CNN — Growing up as a teenager in Afghanistan, Rabia Balkhi felt lucky...

LGBTQ people fear for their lives under Taliban rule

Less than a month after they returned to power, the Taliban have begun going after LGBTQ people in Afghanistan...

The Taliban raped and beat a gay man in Kabul after tricking him into a meeting with a promise of escape from Afghanistan, says report

The Taliban raped and beat a gay man in Kabul after luring him into meeting them through social media...

LGBT+ Afghans left behind say world turned its back on them

Life was already difficult for LGBT+ people in Afghanistan, but those unable to flee fear their lives are in danger under Taliban rule By Hugo Greenhalgh Sept 3 (Openly) - LGBT+ Afghans said on Friday they felt abandoned by the international community as the closure of Kabul airport to passengers this week shattered their hopes of fleeing Taliban rule...

Out in the World: Advocates work to evacuate nearly 1,000 LGBTQ Afghans

The United States left behind approximately 1,000 LGBTQ Afghans with the Taliban when the last evacuation flight departed Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport August 30...

LGBT Afghans are on the run, afraid they could be stoned to death under Taliban law

Ahmadullah says the Taliban beheaded his boyfriend on the day they entered Kabul...

Afghan Gay Men Are Terrified. Taliban Continue to Hunt, Betray, Out, Rape, Beat, Murder, Cause Suicides…And That’s Just the Last 2 Weeks

–Very few Afghan gay men have gotten out...

Times Radio: LGBTQ Afghans face extermination

What they will experience is nothing short of what the homosexuals experienced during the Nazi regime...

‘My life is in danger’: LGBT+ Afghans fear ‘execution’ at the hands of the Taliban

One Taliban judge said that gay men will be executed by stoning or having walls toppled on them...

Gay Afghan man raped and beaten by cruel Taliban fighters after desperately trying to flee

A gay man in Afghanistan was beaten, raped and outed to his family by the Taliban when he tried to flee the country...

They will kill us if they find us’: LGBT Afghans fear new Taliban regime

LGBT Afghans are facing an existential threat under the Taliban, whose previous reign in the country two decades ago saw violence against marginalized groups...

A virtual death sentence’: Gay Afghans brace for uncertain future under Taliban

LGBTQ Afghans and their advocates fear the return of Taliban rule will mean the application of severe penalties for homosexuality...

Toronto charity getting pleas from LGBTQ+ Afghans desperate to escape Taliban rule

Some of the risks include being beaten, detained and murdered,' group's executive director says Rainbow Railroad, a Toronto-based charity that helps LGBTQ+ people escape persecution, says it has received hundreds of requests for help from Afghans fearing for their safety...

no͞ozLGBTQIA+ Community In Afghanistan Fearing For Their Lives Under Taliban Rule

LGBTQIA+ identifying people are fearing for their lives after the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, last week, reports Insider...

'Gay Afghans fear extermination - how dare the government be the judge of refugees' sexuality?'

The fall of Kabul; the resurrection of the Taliban - it was a harrowing scene for most...

Afghanistan: Government urged to evacuate LGBT people under threat from the Taliban

The CEOs of Stonewall and Rainbow Migration are callng for an 'urgent meeting' with the Foreign Secretary to share information about the plight of LGBT Afghans and make a plan to get them out Pressure is mounting on the British government to rescue LGBT people from Afghanistan and provide a safe haven for them in Britain, after four major organisations wrote to the Foreign Office and the Home Office demanding that more be done to protect the most vulnerable groups at risk from being killed by the Taliban since the fall of Kabul...

'No One Would Dare To Utter LGBT Here': Afghan Queers Live in Terror

"The Taliban have their reservations against women, but LGBTQIA+ people, they just kill on the spot...

LGBTQ people fear for their lives, says first openly gay Afghan activist

The Taliban can be seen roaming the streets from outside of people’s homes armed with their machine guns...

‘Underground’ LGTBQ+ community in Afghanistan fear being 'killed on the spot' after Taliban takeover

Members of the LGBTQ+ community in Afghanistan expressed fear as the Taliban took over the country’s capital Kabul...

Islamist political group expected to bring back executions of Afghans accused of being gay or in same-sex relationships.

The takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has left many LGBTQ Afghans fearing for their lives as they wait for religious and political leaders to implement a stringent interpretation of Sharia law, under which homosexuality would be punishable by death...

LGBT+ Afghans desperate to escape amid Taliban takeover

NEW YORK/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was never easy being gay or transgender in Afghanistan...

Men from Afghanistan's secret gay community say they are living through a 'nightmare' and fear that the Taliban will execute them at any moment

Members of Afghanistan's secret LGBTQ+ community are facing a harrowing reality under the Taliban's rule, living in constant fear for their lives...

Just like the Nazis’: Gay Afghans face ‘extermination’ under Taliban

Desperate gay men in Afghanistan are living in terror and pleading for deliverance from the “nightmare” of Taliban rule, according to reports...

LGBT in Afghanistan: 'I could be killed on the spot'

Before the Taliban uprising in Afghanistan, life for gay man Abdul (his name has been changed) was already dangerous...

If They Find Out I’m Gay, They Will Kill Me on the Spot’: Life Under Taliban Rule

Earlier this month, Sulaiman ran away from his hometown...

LGBT+ Afghans in hiding, fearing death under Taliban

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gay men in Kabul say they fear for their lives under Taliban rule, as they hide at home, holding out in hope of a Western evacuation before Islamists carry out a threat to punish LGBT+ Afghans with death...

The Taliban’s return means death for LGBTQ Afghans. Biden, will you help?

President Biden is held in high regard in the LGBTQ community, largely for his “Meet the Press” interview in 2012, when as vice president he endorsed same-sex marriage ahead of President Obama...

The Taliban’s terrifying persecution of LGBT+ people is no longer a horror of the past

As the Taliban completes its takeover of Afghanistan, the country’s LGBT+ community is reportedly fleeing in droves, terrified of what comes next...

‘Na era Talibã, se você ajudar, é morto também’, diz escritor afegão que tenta evacuar pessoas LGBTQIAP+ do país

O escritor, professor e ativista LGBTQIAP+ Nemat Sadat, de 41 anos, nascido no Afeganistão e naturalizado americano, logo pergunta se vimos as imagens de afegãos caindo do avião no ar em Cabul —Aquilo me lembrou as pessoas pulando das Torres Gêmeas, mas os Estados Unidos não se importam — disse ele, em entrevista por Zoom, diretamente de San Diego, na Califórnia...

Taliban will ‘weed out and exterminate’ LGBT+ people in Afghanistan, warns exiled gay author

Gay Afghan author Nemat Sadat has warned that the Taliban will “weed out and exterminate” the LGBT+ community in Afghanistan following their seismic takeover...



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