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Gay Afghan medical student brutally murdered by Taliban
Footage of 22-year-old Hamed Sabouri's killing was sent to his family and partner.
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Gay Afghan who fled from the Taliban ‘makes it safely to Canada’
Speaking to Attitude last August, Ahmadullah shared that his boyfriend had been murdered a week before.
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Gay Afghan stabbed in Taliban attack left feeling ‘hopeless’
The Afghan-American activist, Nemat Sadat, has said LGBTQ people in Afghanistan feel as if their allies have turned their back on them.
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LGBTQ Afghans report gang-rape and death threats under Taliban rule
"Who should I hide from first? From my father or from the Taliban?"
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‘They will never spare LGBTQ people’ – Gay Afghans who fled the Taliban for the UK share their stories
Aseer and Coffe* speak to Attitude after arriving in the UK as refugees last month.
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Taliban using ‘kill list’ to identify LGBTQ people, says charity
Rainbow Railroad say they have had 700 requests for help this year from Afghanistan.
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Gay man ‘raped and beaten by Taliban’ after attempting to escape Afghan
"Two people raped him, they beat him, and then demanded his father's number so they could tell him his son was gay."
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Boris Johnson urged to evacuate LGBTQ Afghans at ‘risk of torture of death’ in open letter
"We need urgent clarity about what the LGBTQI+ Afghans on our list should do to make their way out of Kabul," reads Stonewall and Rainbow Railroad letter.
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‘They took him out of his house, beat him and beheaded him’ – LGBTQ Afghans fearing for their lives
LGBTQ people in Afghanistan tell Attitude that time - and hope - is running out.
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‘The UK government has left LGBTQ Afghans to fend for themselves – time is running out to help them’
Home Office guidance has previously stated that Afghanistan was safe for LGBTQ people. We're now seeing the terrible cost of that policy, writes Billy Stockwell.
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136 groups call for protection of LGBTQ people in Afghanistan following Taliban takeover
136 organisations have banded together to call for the protection of people's human rights and humanitarian assistance.
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Gay men in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan will be crushed to death by ’10ft wall’, says judge
"There can only be two punishments: either stoning, or he must stand behind a wall that will fall down on him"
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Pete Buttigieg has opened up about why he waited until he was 33 to come out
The army veteran and mayor is a frontrunner for the upcoming Presidential campaign
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Afghan teen asylum seeker rejected in Austria as aggression isn’t expected of homosexuals
The teenager reportedly was also rejected because he had few friends and spent time alone
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US army veteran to sue the Pentagon’s policies which bans soldiers serving with HIV
Sergeant Nick Harrison was denied the chance to serve as an officer because of his HIV status
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