Author: Ezat Mossallanejad & Arghavan Shamsara
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Pages: 254
Publication date: 2025
ISBN: 978-1771618441
A powerful and urgently needed examination of one of the world's most overlooked human rights crises, Sexual Orientation and Torture explores the persecution of LGBTQI+ people across the globe, who continue to face torture, forced medical and psychiatric treatment, sexual violence, imprisonment, and exile simply because of who they are. These abuses have been extensively documented by organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, yet they often remain hidden behind a troubling silence. Drawing on decades of frontline experience, rigorous historical research, and the testimonies of survivors, this groundbreaking book traces the long history of persecution while exposing the realities of discrimination and violence that persist today, offering both a compelling account of human suffering and a powerful call to defend the rights, dignity, and freedom of LGBTQI+ people worldwide.