Category: Violence Against Gay Human Beings

April 8, 2009 – UPI: Iraq Gays in Iraq face killings, cop crackdowns
— “slayings of as many as 25 gay men and boys in Iraq in recent weeks”
— April 8, 2009 – NY Times: Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
— April 5, 2009 – Iraq: Gay Men Murdered by Extremists in So-Called “Honor Killing”
— See Also:
— September 25, 2008: ‘Sexual cleansing’ rampant in Iraq
— “Revered cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Tatchell notes, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for the killing of homosexuals in the ‘most severe way possible.'”
— May 17, 2006: Iraqi militants sentence all gays to death

Note:
Thursday April 16, 2009 Rally  in London
— to highlight “the execution and murder of Iraqi LGBT over the last several days and equally those still imprisoned and facing execution/murder as now”
— Urgent petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals sentenced to death in Iraq

Other Extremist Anti-Gay “Honor Killings”
— July 21, 2008: Man flees Turkey after “honour killing” of his gay activist boyfriend
— July 19, 2008: Was Ahmet Yildiz the victim of Turkey’s first gay honour killing?
— July 18, 2008: A Gay Honor Killing?
— Ahmet Yildiz is my family

April 5, 2009 – Reuters: Gays killed in Baghdad as clerics urge clampdown
— Sadr City official: “Their tribes killed them to restore their family honor”
— “The police source who declined to be named said the bodies of four gay men were unearthed in Sadr City on March 25, each bearing a sign reading ‘pervert’ in Arabic on their chest”
— “Homosexual acts are punishable by up to seven years in prison in Iraq.”
— “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.”
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L4506230.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090404/wl_nm/us_iraq_gays_killings_1
— Iraqi police: 2 gay men killed in Baghdad slum
— “Police said they believe the most recent killings were at the hands of a family members because no one has claimed the bodies or called for an investigation”

April 5, 2009 – CNN: (Iraq) Six gay men shot to death in Iraq by tribe members
— “On March 26, four additional men were fatally shot in the same city, the official said, adding that the victims had also been disowned by their relatives.”
— “Witnesses told CNN that a Sadr City cafe, which was a popular gathering spot for gays, was also set on fire.”