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Simsim

Age 28

15 Feb 2024
Diwaniyah (Iraq)
Stabbed

TDoR list ref: tgeu/tdor2024/15-Feb-2024/Simsim

Simsim
Simsim [photo: www.youtube.com]

Simsim was a blogger. She died after being stabbed multiple times in the street.

An unnamed security official from Al-Qadisiyah Governorate told Iraqi media outlet Shafaq News that a transgender blogger was killed after being stabbed repeatedly in the city center of Al Diwaniyah, the capital of Al-Qadisiyyah in Iraq. Governorate, located 189 kilometers southeast of the country's capital, Baghdad.

The police officer told Shafaq News: “Simsim, aged 28, was murdered by unknown assailants with several stab wounds with sharp knives near the mural roundabout in the city center of Diwaniyah.” The official went on to point out that “the murderers escaped to an unidentified location and the forensic team took the body to carry out the legal procedures.”

Iraq has seen a series of killings of transgender people, Shafaq News noted. One of the most notable cases was the murder of NOOR BM, a popular TikTok figure who was shot dead by an unknown gunman in Baghdad in September 2023.

Last August, Iraq's Media and Communications Commission ordered media outlets and social media companies operating in the country to refer to homosexuality as “sexual deviance.”

Homosexuality is legal in Iraq, but violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity remain common in the country.

https://watermarkonline.com/2024/02/20/asesinato-de-bloguero-transgenero-en-irak/

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/02/16/trans-blogger-simsim-killed-in-iraq-by-knife-wielding-assailants/

https://shafaq.com/en/Iraq-News/Transgender-blogger-Simsim-assassinated-in-Diwaniyah

https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/crime/justice-for-simsim-a-transgender-blogger-murdered-in-iraq

https://www.basnews.com/en/babat/839617

https://twitter.com/Islammado1985/status/1758205599072882823

https://twitter.com/EnglishBasNews/status/1758089076136116444

Report added: 24 Feb 2024. Last updated: 13 Nov 2024

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