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‘I had to sit on a Pepsi bottle’: Gay men in Iraq reveal shocking...
This is exactly what it's like to be LGBTI under ISIS
Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, fell to ISIS in June 2014. Everyone was affected, but so-called Islamic State targeted gay people in particular.
It took nine months of intense military operations from Iraqi forces and their allies to recapture Mosul in July 2017.
But for those three years, ISIS executed LGBTI people by blindfolding them and throwing them off rooftops, as well as stoning them.
Daesh (ISIS) also enforced strict clothing limitations....
