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.
