Iraq police abduct gays at gunpoint [1]

By : vanrozenheim on Dec 04, 2006 - 07:44 PM
GeneralNews [2]
(Baghdad, Iraq) - Five young activists from Iraqi LGBT, Amjad 27, Rafid 29, Hassan 24, Ayman 19 and Ali 21 were seized at gunpoint by Iraqi police while holding a secret meeting in the al-Shaab district of Baghdad on 9 November. They were communicating with Ali Hili, a British-based gay Iraqi Muslim who heads Iraqi LGBT and is Middle East spokesman for UK queer rights group Outrage.

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