The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response has been swift and deadly.
In the past two months, the bodies of as many as 25 boys and men suspected of being gay have turned up in the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City, the police and friends of the dead say. Most have been shot, some multiple times. Several have been found with the word “pervert” in Arabic on notes attached to their bodies, the police said.
Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
Several Palestinians have been injured in separate attacks across the occupied West Bank amid Israel’s genocidal...
A global campaign in support of captive Palestinians has urged the International Committee of the Red...
The Israeli government announced on Tuesday that it had approved a budget of approximately 1.3bn shekels...
The Church of England has voted to hear Palestinian Christians, defying efforts by pro-Israel organisations to...
