Two young LGBT rights activists in Afghanistan face torture and being stoned to death by the Taliban after trying to leave the country. Maryam Ravish, 19, and Maeve Alcina Pieescu, 23, were ...

GYRATING awkwardly in dark eye make-up and girls’ clothes, the dancing boys of Afghanistan twirl for their depraved masters. These wretched children - some as young as ten - aren’t just forced ...

An Afghan woman and her husband have won the right to stay in the UK after a judge found she would not be adequately treated ...

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