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Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ+
This is the world of “kito” attacks in Nigeria: where members of the LGBTQ+ community are catfished online, kidnapped, tortured and extorted by gangs in a rising surge in violence and hatred. Now, amid unprecedented aid cuts, the survivors of these attacks who are also living with HIV must contend with the collapse of the very clinics and shelters that once helped them. Chief international correspondent Bel Trew travels to Nigeria, where the most vulnerable are fighting for their lives. This article has been produced as part of The Independent’s Rethinking Global Aid project
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Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ+
This is the world of “kito” attacks in Nigeria: where members of the LGBTQ+ community are catfished online, kidnapped, tortured and extorted by gangs in a rising surge in violence…
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Inside the deadly attacks on Nigeria’s LGBTQ+ community: ‘I thought I’d be lynched’
Chief international correspondent Bel Trew investigates the phenomenon of ‘kito’ attacks in Nigeria, where members of the LGBTQ+ community are catfished online, kidnapped, beaten…
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I was persecuted like these LGBTQ+ people – we can’t sit back and do nothing
Jide Macaulay is a gay Anglican minister who has spent much of his life helping the most vulnerable LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria. He is clear that Bel Trew’s new documentary ‘Hunted’…