(Photo courtesy of Dr. Ahmad Qais Munzahim)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s LGBTQ rights envoy has said another group of LGBTQ Afghans has arrived in the country.
Nick Herbert, who is a member of the British House of Lords, in a tweet said the group “arrived in the U.K. safely” Nov. 5.
A group of 29 LGBTQ Afghans who Stonewall, Rainbow Railroad and Micro Rainbow evacuated from Afghanistan with the help of the British government arrived in the U.K. Oct. 29. Herbert in his tweet did not say how many LGBTQ Afghans are part of the second group.
UPDATE: one week on, the UK has supported a further group of LGBT+ Afghans who arrived in the UK safely yesterday. Good news 🇬🇧🏳️🌈 https://t.co/XMnlPKCE4e
— Nick Herbert (@nickherbertcbe) November 6, 2021
The Taliban entered Kabul, the Afghan capital, on Aug. 15 and regained control of the country.
A Taliban judge in July said the group would once again execute gay people if it were to return to power in Afghanistan.
Some of the 50 Afghan human rights activists who Taylor Hirschberg, a researcher at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health who is also a Hearst Foundation scholar, has been able to help leave the country since the Taliban regained control of it are LGBTQ. Rainbow Railroad, Immigration Equality and the Human Rights Campaign are among the groups that continue to urge the Biden administration to do more to help LGBTQ Afghans who remain in the country.
