A student has been tortured to death by the Taliban - who sent the video to his family.
Hahmed Sabouri was executed after three days of torture before a grim video of his killing was forwarded, his partner has revealed.
The Taliban gunmen detained the trainee doctor, 22, from Kabul, at a traffic checkpoint in the Afghan capital in August.
According to reports, they took him to a detention centre, where they tortured him for three days before shooting him in the back of the head.
A gruesome video of his execution was sent to his family and his partner, Bahar, days later.
After receiving the video, Hamed's family sold their homes, fled the country, and sought refuge in Turkey, while Bahar stayed in Afghanistan but went into hiding.
Bahar told media: "We were like any other couple around the world in love but the Taliban treat us like criminals."
He added: "I have many friends from the LGBTQ+ community here in Afghanistan who have also been kidnapped and tortured.
"I was arrested by the Taliban in August 2021 and again in May and June this year and was raped, beaten and tortured with electric shocks."
Since the overthrow of the Ghani government by the Taliban in August last year, there have been numerous reports of gay Afghans being tortured and killed.
Recently, there were reports that the Taliban were using the monkeypox outbreak in May this year as an excuse to detain gay men.
Same-sex activity is illegal under Sharia law and is punishable by death.
The Mirror reported in August last year how brutal new rules have been drawn up by the Taliban which means women will face torture and death while targets on a 'kill list' could be murdered on their doorsteps.
Harrowing reports have already surfaced from Afghanistan as the government collapsed which paved the way for the Taliban to seize power nearly 20 years after being driven out by the West.
There were claims of summary killings by the Taliban as fighters perform door-to-door searches throughout Kabul.
They are hunting down former officials, ex-police, soldiers and anyone who worked with the former Kabul government - or with coalition forces.
A British private security team was forced to negotiate through a Taliban checkpoint and was given alarming news.
A source said: “The Taliban told them: ‘you need to leave now because a large number of foreign fighters is heading to Kabul and you don’t want to be here when they arrive.
“These fighters will not be here to be peaceful.”
The Taliban guard told them the battle-hardened foreign fighters were travelling from Wardak, 100 miles west of Kabul, and have a brutal and merciless reputation as fighters.
- An earlier version of this story included a photo showing a man who was not Hahmed Sabouri. This has been corrected.
