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Electroshock ‘used on gay UK soldiers’

British soldiers with the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission arrive at the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan in March 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

Gay British soldiers were subjected to electric shock treatment in an effort to “cure” them of homosexuality, according to a damning investigation into historic homophobia in the UK armed forces.

Military personnel were still being referred to doctors for conversion therapy as recently as the 1990s, according to anonymous testimony in a government-commissioned review seen by Bloomberg and scheduled for publication next month.

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