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Take Action: Islamic State Terror Campaign Targets Vulnerable LGBTI People in Iraq and Syria

Take Action Now!

 

Urge the United Nations and the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United States to Urgently Protect Marginalized and Persecuted Minorities

 

Our Urgent Concern

Since June 2014, the Islamic State has proudly documented the brutal murders of five men accused of having same-sex relations in Iraq. In recent months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported killings by the Islamic State of four men also accused of “sodomy.” These cruel acts add to the Islamic State’s countless other well-publicized murders of individuals apparently because of their faith, their demeanor, their dress, or because they were accused of adultery or other “transgressions.”

Even before these executions, the Islamic State, on its website, had sworn its intent to punish homosexual acts with death. While no precise details are available as to the victims’ identities or circumstances, the gruesome public spectacles are clearly intended to instill terror among the region’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) and gender non-confirming population, long marginalized and persecuted.

The international community must confront the latest onslaught–photos that show men being thrown from tall buildings, and details on some being stoned and shot to death before assembled crowds. We cannot look away from these atrocities. There are steps that can be taken to protect LGBTI people and others fleeing the violence. We urge you to join our call to the United Nations and governments engaged in the region to help protect our community.

Take Action Now!

Read the timeline of these brutal killings »

Sign the letter to officials »

Read about our overall concerns for LGBTI Iraqis, in our recent report “When Coming Out is a Death Sentence”

Watch presentation from United Nations Security Council meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuW3HzhwmkQ

Published on September 13, 2015       | OutRight Action International an LGBT human rights organization

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