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Mohammad Alamgir (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Bangladesh police carry out midnight raid against LGBT rights defender
Ershad Halim (Photo courtesy of the University of Dhaka)
Gay teacher at Dhaka University pleads innocent after arrest on sex harassment charges
Costume party in Tomsk, Siberia. (Photo courtesy of Novaya Gazeta Europe)
Russia’s police hunt for gays, but find clowns
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Kazakhstan parliament passes ‘Anti-LGBT Propaganda’ law
Hijras crying after being physically assaulted by an organised group while returning from the Boalkhali Police Station in Chittagong, after submitting a complaint against the same group for demanding extortion money. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Bangladesh police arrest dozens of third-gender people
Location of Bangladesh in South Asia. (Map courtesy of GISgeography)
Bangladeshi repression extends far beyond LGBTQ community
A scene from last month's Euro-Mediterranean Summer Universities of Homosexualities (UEEH) human rights gathering in Vic-en-Bigorre, France. (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
In Bangladesh, anti-gay intimidation, violence and persecution are escalating
Sahara Chowdhury (Photo illustration courtesy of X)
Bangladesh academics protest expulsion of transgender student
Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Bangladesh university students tortured, expelled over alleged sexuality
This image was used on the scammers’ website. An Xtra investigation determined it is a photo of a real event that was altered to include the name and logo of a fake charity. (Photo courtesy of Xtra)
Scamsters prey on LGBTQ+ activists from the Global South, inviting them to fake conferences in Canada
Rafiqul Islam (Photo courtesy of JMBF)
Human rights activists protest killing of gay Bangladesh man
Tunisian LGBTQ rights protest.
Tunisia and Malaysia arrest dozens of queer people in escalating crackdowns
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Banker and professor charged with the murdering gay Bangladeshi electrician
Winnie Byanyima, a Ugandan national and the global executive director of UNAIDS, is urging the United States to continue its support of Pepfar's fight against HIV / AIDS. (Photo courtesy of Eagle News)
UNAIDS chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by U.S. cuts that will mean millions more deaths
Employee of the LGBT bar Pace in custody in Russia. (Alexander Klimov photo courtesy of Ural56.ru)
Toll of Russia’s LGBT ‘extremism’ prosecutions: 101 convictions