Tag: Baghdad
Iraqi actor Karar Noshi tortured and murdered for ‘looking gay’
An actor in Iraq has reportedly been kidnapped and murdered for ‘looking gay.’
Iraqi gay men face ‘lives of hell’
Grainy footage taken on a mobile phone and widely distributed around Baghdad shows a terrified young Iraqi boy cowering and whimpering as men with a stick force him to strip, revealing women’s underwear beneath his dishdasha (Arab robe).
6 gay men shot in Iraq after clerics urged crackdown on gays
Two gay men were killed in Baghdad’s Sadr City slum, a local official said on Saturday, and police said they had found the bodies of four more after clerics urged a crackdown on a perceived spread of homosexuality.