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Afghanistan | Taliban targeting LGBT people
28.01.2022 - 20:29 / mambaonline.com
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Human rights groups say that LGBT Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan face an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats to their safety and lives under the Taliban.
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International released a disturbing 43-page report based on 60 interviews with LGBT Afghans.
Many of those interviewed reported that Taliban members attacked or threatened them because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Others reported abuse from family members, neighbours, and romantic partners who now support the Taliban or believed they had to act against LGBT people close to them to ensure their own safety.
Some fled their homes from attacks by Taliban members or supporters pursuing them. Others watched lives they had carefully built over the years disappear overnight and found themselves at risk of being targeted at any time because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Taliban, which retook power in August last year after American troops left Afghanistan, espouses a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law, which includes execution as a penalty for homosexuality.
“We spoke with LGBT Afghans who have survived gang rape, mob attacks, or have been hunted by their own family members who joined the Taliban, and they have no hope that state institutions will protect them,” said J. Lester Feder, senior fellow for emergency research at OutRight Action International.
“For those LGBT people who want to flee the country, there are few good options; most of Afghanistan’s neighbours also criminalise same-sex relations. It is
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LGBTQ people in Afghanistan face violence, rape and extortion, say human rights watchdogs
report, from Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International, conditions have “dramatically worsened” for LGBTQ people in Afghanistan — even though the country was never overly welcoming or accepting of homosexuality or transgender identity when the U.S.-supported government was in charge. In fact, same-sex relations were criminalized under the old regime, just as they are under the Taliban — although the Taliban appears more willing to met out extrajudicial violence against those suspected of being LGBTQ.“The danger now facing LGBT people in Afghanistan — in an environment devoid of legal protections, under authorities that have explicitly pledged not to tolerate LGBT people — is grave,” the report’s authors state.The report included interviews of 60 LGBTQ Afghans conducted between October and December of last year.
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