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Man with dreams of becoming a doctor slaughtered by Taliban just for being gay
Taliban.Hamed Sabouri, 22, was killed in August, local activists told PinkNews.Sabouri, from Kabul, was reportedly kidnapped by extremists who filmed the very moment they shot him to death.Taliban forces, showing the impunity they feel in carrying out such vicious anti-LGBTQ+ violence, then sent the clip to the victim’s family days later.To Bahar, a gay Afghan and LGBTQ+ campaigner, Sabouri was a ‘shy’ person with the kind of laughter that’s hard not to find contagious. He hoped to one day become a doctor, Bahar said, but the Taliban’s bloody takeover of Afghanistan threw his life — and countless other LGBTQ+ Afghans — into peril.‘Life is hell for every LGBT Afghan.