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Content Type(s): Publication
Topic(s): Torture, Violence and Abuse, Crackdown on Activism
Region(s): Afghanistan
… into hiding at home. The Taliban’s first year of rule by force in Afghanistan demonstrates that LGBTIQ people’s fears were not unfounded. Between September and October 2022, Outright … Taliban security officials now appear to be pursuing LGBTIQ people – especially gay men and trans women – more systematically than in the first few months of Taliban rule, subjecting them … demanded she go with them. When she refused, they grabbed her and said, “What, do you think we don’t recognize you? Now is the time we rip your roots from the earth.” Nasira Nasira, a …
Content Type(s): Press Release
Region(s): Afghanistan
… After the Taliban Takeover” is based on 60 interviews with LGBT Afghans. Many reported that Taliban members attacked or threatened them because of their sexual orientation or gender … men were friends. They said their son had been missing for two or three days. But Hamid hadn’t heard from him either. The next day the family found their son’s body. The parents returned to … Taliban forces took their city in August, Aimal W. and Aryan D. took shelter with two other trans women in an abandoned hostel. The neighbors would often insult them. Their friend Riza was …