Mr Akbary told ITV News the Taliban’s promises of a more tolerant regime than the one deposed after the US military invasion of 2001 are empty.
He said: ‘They are trying to tell the world “we are changed and we don’t have problems with women’s rights or human rights” – but they are lying.
‘The Taliban hasn’t changed because their ideology hasn’t changed.
The group’s access to social media means such incidents will become more commonplace, Mr Akbary warned.
He added: ‘They’ll make a profile account and deceive LGBT+ people by pretending they’re a member of the community.
Taliban thugs set a honeytrap for a gay Afghan man who thought he would be helped to escape the country before raping and beating him, it has been revealed.
The man, whose name has been withheld for his safety, was targeted after seeking a safe route past the Islamist group’s border checkpoints.
He reportedly met a man who promised to help on social media and chatted to him for three weeks before agreeing to meet up.
But when he arrived, he found himself face-to-face with two Taliban fighters, who carried out the brutal attack, according to ITV News
They then forced him to hand over his father’s number so they could out him to his family, in a country where LGBT+ people are said to face persecution from within society as well as by their new extremist rulers.
People caught in same-sex relationships previously faced prison under the Nato-backed democratic government which the Taliban overthrew, but now their fates are bleaker.
The man’s ordeal was revealed by Artemis Akbary, an Afghan LGBT+ rights activist who now lives in Turkey.
‘My friends in Afghanistan are scared, they don’t know what will happen to them in the future so they’re just trying to hide.
A former Afghan police officer previously told Metro.co.uk the Taliban are now using the overthrown government’s digital and biometric data to hunt down their targets.
The extremists have already been recorded using violence to uphold their draconian religious edicts, with one fighter filmed striking a man’s neck with an assault rifle for playing music on his mobile phone.
Meanwhile, British veterans have vowed to do all it takes to rescue former Afghan colleagues despite the end of the official UK evacuation efforts.
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