The Taliban has a kill list’ for the Afghan LGBT community, NGO says

Since the https://latherwoon.livejournal.com/440.html Taliban took control of Afghanistan at the end of August the persecution of the country’s LGBT+ community has ramped up, forcing many to live in hiding, fearing for their lives. “We now know http://hydrossentialseru.blogsidea.com/9855096/hydrossential-serum-reviews for sure the Taliban has a ‘kill list’,” said the head of the Rainbow Railroad, a Canadian NGO helping under-threat Afghans to flee into exile.

The situation  https://www.tripoto.com/trip/hydrossential-serum-reviews-6180d9a6ac73f for the LGBT+ community in Afghanistan has never been easy. Same-sex relations have always been taboo in the Muslim-majority country, where – even under https://peatix.com/group/11610073/view the former Western-backed government – non-heterosexual https://form.jotform.com/latherwoon01/hydrossential-serum relations were illegal and could lead to up to two years in prison.

But since the Taliban came to https://dribbble.com/shots/16776193-Hydrossential-Serum-Reviews power after the US military withdrawal on August 30, the situation has deteriorated rapidly. Although the militant group has not yet officially said how it plans https://about.me/latherwoon to deal with acts of homosexuality, reports are increasingly suggesting that the Taliban is applying a strict interpretation of Sharia law, https://www.reddit.com/user/latherwoon01/comments/qkytbv/hydrossential_serum_reviews/ under which same-sex relations may be punishable by death.

“This is a really scary https://www.wattpad.com/1149409795-hydrossential-serum-reviews-hydrossential-serum time to be in Afghanistan,” Executive Director Kimahli Powell of Rainbow Railroad, the only international LGBT+ organisation https://www.bloglovin.com/@latherwoon/hydrossential-serum-reviews on the ground in Afghanistan, told FRANCE 24 in a telephone interview.

“We now know for sure the Taliban has a ‘kill list’ circulating, identifying LBTQI+ persons.”

According to Powell, the https://telegra.ph/Hydrossential-Serum-11-02 Taliban most likely profited from the power vacuum that took place in the days and weeks leading up to the US withdrawal deadline to draw up these “kill lists” by paying  https://works.bepress.com/lather-woon/ close attention to the names of people that foreign rights groups were trying to evacuate. “After the fall of Kabul, there was a lot of information sharing,” he said, noting https://www.scribd.com/document/536627861/Hydrossential-Serum that the people who never made it aboard any of the departing flights were instead left vulnerable, with their identities exposed. 

Powell also said the Taliban https://hydroessentialserum.mystrikingly.com/blog/hydroessential-serum seem to have complemented these lists through active persecution, by means of “entrapment” and data leaks.

“[Some] individuals who have reached https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1101270915101502637/ out to us have told us about how they’ve received a mystery email from someone claiming to be connected with Rainbow Railroad asking for their https://www.pressnews.biz/@latherwoon01/hydrossential-serum-reviews-b68qejkxj8dj information and passport. That’s how we know the information has been leaked.”

Spike in requests for help

Rainbow Railroad was https://foursquare.com/user/1378628072/list/hydrossential-serum-reviews founded in 2006 with the aim of helping at-risk LGBT+ people around the world flee violence and persecution in their homelands. In 2017, the group shot to worldwide fame after helping more than a hundred people escape persecution during https://www.behance.net/gallery/130475501/Hydrossential-Serum-Reviews the deadly anti-gay purge in Chechnya. In the past few months, however, most of its efforts has been focused on Afghanistan, where https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/health/hydrossential-serum-reviews it is helping threatened members of the local LGBT+ community find temporary refuge in safe houses, after which it tries to bring them “by land or by air” to https://www.diigo.com/user/latherwoon01 permanent safety abroad.

“I can guarantee https://agreatertown.com/united_states_minor_outlying_islands_un/hydrossential_serum_reviews_000659214931 you already right now, that the number of requests we will receive this year will spike,” Powell said, noting that for Afghanistan https://www.callupcontact.com/b/businessprofile/Hydrossential_Serum/7882197 alone, the group has already fielded 700 requests this year and identified at least 200 more people “in need of immediate evacuation”. The group https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/latherwoon01/hydrossential-serum-reviews-9c631f usually receives a global total of 4,000 help requests per year.

In August, just prior to the https://promosimple.com/ps/14df9/hydrossential-serum-reviews US troop departure, Rainbow Railroad helped dozens of at-risk LGBT Afghans to safety via the military airlift. Last Friday, the NGO helped bring https://www.homify.com/ideabooks/8376193/hydrossential-serum-reviews another 29 people into Britain via a second airlift.

“There are private https://www.face-world.net/ citizens [in Afghanistan] that have been keen to help. But as far as LGBTQ organisations go, it's really just https://the-dots.com/users/lather-woon-1149890 us there. But it has allowed us https://bookmess.com/t/67218 to form partnerships with non-LGBTQI+ groups who have also been getting people out,” he said.

Passport burned 

Powell described https://sites.google.com/view/hydrossential-serum-/home a recent incident in which Rainbow Railroad was actively working to bring a threatened individual to safety, but who was then suddenly subjected to a Taliban raid. “People https://medium.com/@latherwoon01/hydrossential-serum-ce266ad153b1 entered the house without any sort of uniform, and while ransacking the place they discovered information that made them suspect the person was part of the [LGBT+] community. Then they took their phone, through which  https://hydrossentialserum.gumroad.com/l/hydrossential-serum they confirmed the person was a part of the community and proceeded to physically assault and humiliate the individual. Then they found their passport and burned it.”

“The person is still there, and our job to try to get them to safety is now infinitely harder,” he said.

Powell described the https://creator.wonderhowto.com/piperrobinn/ current climate in Afghanistan as “lawless”, saying the general uncertainty and unpredictability of what Taliban rule entails for the population as a whole has even led to some https://forums.ubisoft.com/member.php/7212398-latherwoon01 people turning in https://forum.adguard.com/index.php?members/latherwoon01.52715/#about family members for suspected LGBT+ activity.

“As I said, this is really scary https://os.mbed.com/users/latherwoon01/ times, and people are trying to curry favour with the Taliban,” he said. “I think everyone's trying to navigate that environment, and so if they (the Taliban) have identified LGBTQ+ people https://www.capitalcichlids.org/forums/members/latherwoon01.32190/#about as a target, there's an incentive to turn them in.”

Powell said that this has left members https://bukkit.org/members/latherwoon01.91387918/ of Afghanistan’s LGBT+ community even more vulnerable and isolated, since they can’t even count on the support and protection of their families. https://currentlynewsreport.blogspot.com/2021/11/last-best-hope-glasgow-climate-summit.html In the meantime, he said, they don’t have much choice but to hide.

“This has been the most complicated mission that we've done, and continues to be so.