In thirty-nine cases, individuals were able to identify the armed group behind the attack against them. In eight cases, abuses by armed groups and state actors, including arbitrary arrest and sexual violence, were against children as young as 15. Human Rights Watch, supported by the Iraqi LGBT rights organization IraQueer, documented eight cases of abductions, eight cases of attempted murder, four extrajudicial killings, twenty-seven cases of sexual violence-including gang rape-forty-five cases of threats to rape and kill, and forty-two cases of online targeting by individuals who identified themselves as members of armed groups against LGBT people in Iraq. It is based on 54 interviews with LGBT Iraqis who have survived violence and discrimination by state and non-state actors, based primarily on their gender expression and presumed sexual orientation. This report is focused on killings, abductions, torture, and sexual violence against LGBT people by armed groups in Iraq. The cyclical nature of abuses against LGBT people, emanating from the family and stretching into every aspect of their public life, renders any “suspicion” of homosexuality or gender variance a cause for potential violence, which not only results in the death of LGBT people but makes their lives unlivable. The Iraqi government has failed to hold accountable members of various armed groups who in recent years have continued to abduct, rape, torture, and kill lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, with impunity. Laith, 27-year-old Iraqi gay man, October 13, 2021 I wanted to help but I was terrified.… They kept beating him for around 20 minutes. They arrived at a big farm, took out my boyfriend and started beating him. They beat him and forced him into the car and drove away. I went to his house and saw a black Honda parked under his house. In late May 2020, my boyfriend was killed in front of me.
Khadija, 31-year-old Iraqi transgender woman, August 5, 2021 They sliced me up and poured around five liters of gasoline all over my body and face and set me alight…. I lay down on the garbage and they pulled out a razor blade and a screwdriver and poked and cut me all over, especially my ass, crotch, and thighs. They told me to get up and threw me in a garbage bin…. They kicked and punched and slapped me all over my head and body. , I was on my way home when five or six men in a huge, tinted Hummer stopped me.
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