Meanwhile, Riyadh bans unlicensed social media ads, illegal organ trade thrives in Iraq, and thousands of expatriates await deportation decision in Saudi Arabia
BAGHDAD (AP) A transgender woman said several men beat her up, threw her in a garbage bin, cut her and set her alight before she was rescued. A gay man said his boyfriend was killed before his eyes.
A report by Human Rights Watch, in collaboration with an Iraqi LGBT rights organization, accuses armed groups in Iraq of abducting, raping, torturing, and killing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people with impunity