a prison sentence for homosexual activities with an Afghan man. Other news reports also noted that other men have been imprisoned for engaging in such same-sex sexual behavior. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan The Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021 after the previous government collapsed. Under their rule, LGBT recognition is against Islamic (sharīʿa) law and homosexuals are to be punished by death. Unlike the previous republic government, the Taliban's state have openly, either directly or indirectly, killed LGBT members. Under its first rule in the 1990s the group criminalized all sexual relationships outside of the heterosexual marriage, and would often publicly execute men and women for committing fornication and adultery and for engaging in sodomy. In 1994, the Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Omar, saved a boy from being sodomized by two feuding generals in Kandahar and when he was subsequently given control of the city he decreed that both violent and mutually consensual sodomy would be capital crimes. Recognition of same-sex relationships Islamic Republic of Afghanistan The Afghanistan Law of Marriages (1971) stipulated that a legal marriage must be between two Muslim adults of the opposite sex, and that it must meet the rules of Islamic law. While the law did not explicitly address the issue of same-sex couples, Article 41 of the Marriage Law stipulated that where the law was silent on a particular issue, it was to be decided based on the principles of Islamic law. Hence, Afghanistan family law did not recognize same-sex marriages, civil unions or domestic partnerships. Likewise, the Afghanistan Law on Marriages, Weddings and Circumcision (1949) spoke of marriage as something between a Muslim man and woman and stated that marriages must follow Islamic law. Article 430 stated that it shall be treated as "Instigation of Delinquency" if an adult promotes or assists in the act of minors (under 18) being involved in the act of adultery, homosexuality or prostitution. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Same-sex relationships and marriages are not recognized under the Taliban government. Discrimination and harassment Attacks on gay men Gay men have reportedly been lured to their deaths both by the Taliban government and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: according to activists, national security officials would make fake profiles on social media sites and dupe them into meeting them, often killing and raping them. In 2021, the Taliban lured a gay man in Kabul into meeting them using social media, and