There has been a lot of talk about the difficult future facing women in the Taliban regime, but sexual diversity activists also sounded the alarm about the lack of respect for homosexuals.
Along these lines, Artemis Akbary, an Afghan rights activist now living in Turkey, spoke to ITV News and told a gruesome story, which graphs the hard time they face.
A gay Afghan was contacted by the Taliban, who masqueraded as opponents of the fundamentalist group and offered to help him escape the country.
The young man, who was in a hiding place in Kabul, fell into the trap and met them. He was arrested, taken to a special facility where he was raped and brutally beaten.
Akbary spoke personally with the victim and narrated that the young man was “raped and beaten by the Taliban in Kabul after they tricked him into meeting them,” the Daily Mail reported.
The activist called for not falling short of the promises of the Taliban.
.@artemis_akbary, an Afghan #LGBTIA + rights activist now based in Turkey believes that social media will make it easier for the Taliban to never find and kill LGBT + Afghans. 🇦🇫🌈👇https: //t.co/HS5iB0IbR6
– Sébastien Tüller (@SebastienTULLER) August 30, 2021
Gay man is “raped and beaten by Taliban in Kabul” https://t.co/oZVNXF2kWx
– Daily Mail online (@MailOnline) August 31, 2021
“They’re lying”
“They’re trying to tell the world that‘ we’ve changed and we have no issues with women’s rights or human rights, ”Akbary said.
But the activist assured that the fundamentalists “are lying. The Taliban have not changed, because their ideology has not changed.”
As he detailed, “my friends in Afghanistan are scared, they don’t know what will happen to them in the future, so they are just trying to hide.”
A similar situation is experienced by women. While regime spokesmen pledged to respect their rights, narratives of localities in the north of the country noted that the Taliban were capturing women over the age of 12 as sex slaves.