Safety Alert for LGBTQIA+ Members in Kirkuk
Summary
Kirkuk Governorate issues an urgent safety announcement for LGBTQIA+ members covering privacy and digital security. Members are warned not to post selfies or photos showing nearby locations, to use Proton email and a VPN, and to distrust unsolicited DMs even from people who claim to be queer. This guidance matters as enforcement and targeted entrapment have increased.
URGENT FOR LGBTQIA+ MEMBERS
Be careful to not post selfies online on accounts where you're openly queer on/connected to your queer account too
Be sure to not post pictures of any place adjacent to your location
And be sure to use proton for email and a VPN, favorably proton vpn
These are all stuff done by mistake in the past.
Oh and also, DO NOT TRUST ANY OTHER PERSON DMING YOU ON ANY SOCIAL MEDIA, EVEN IF THEY IDENTIFY AS QUEER
MULTIPLE ARTICLES HAVE SHOWN PEOPLE ACTING QUEER TO GET OTHERS IN JAIL, WITH ONE MANAGUNG TO CATCH NEARLY 300 QUEER PEOPLE
Ik I might be yapping too much but the laws are getting enforced harder day by day
