Last month, I wrote about the gay underground railroad in Iraq created by the London-based activist group IRAQI LGBT to smuggle gay people out of Iraq. Gays in the country are, to be blunt, being hunted down and killed in Iraq. Iraqi LGBT has already saved dozens of lives, but there are still more lives at immediate risk. From UK Gay News:
More than 100 prisoners in Iraq are facing execution – and many of them are believed to have been convicted of the ‘crime’ of being gay, the UK-based Iraqi-LGBT group revealed this afternoon.
According to Ali Hili of Iraqi-LGBT, the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing them in batches of 20 from this week. There is, said Mr. Hili, at least one member of Iraqi-LGBT who are among those to be put to death.
And the London-based group, which believes that a total of 128 executions are imminent, is calling on the UK Government, international human rights groups and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva to intervene “with due speed” to prevent “this tragic miscarriage of justice” from going ahead.
Learn more, including what you can do to help, at Iraqi LGBT.
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