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Desperate call for LGBTQI Afghans to be evacuated

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Vulnerable LGBTQI Afghans are unlikely to be saved by Western governments (Photo: Meandering Images / Shutterstock) Calls by activists for the UK to help LGBTQI Afghans flee persecution by the Taliban in Afghanistan as a “priority group” are unlikely to be successful. In a letter to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab earlier this week, advocacy groups Stonewall and Rainbow Railroad said they’d been contacted by LGBTQI+ people in Afghanistan in need of protection and safe passage to the UK. “All of these individuals share a grave fear of being early targets of the new regime simply because they are LGBTQI+,” said the groups, urging Raab to provide them with “targeted support”.

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