As unprecedented global aid cuts hurt some of the most vulnerable people across the world, The Independent has partnered with the UK’s first and only dedicated LGBTQ+ cinema, The Arzner, to screen our powerful new documentary Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed and tortured for being LGBTQ+.
Reported by The Independent's award-winning chief international correspondent, Bel Trew, the film documents the world of attacks in Nigeria, where members of the LGBTQ+ community are entrapped, humiliated and extorted by gangs in a rising surge in violence and hatred. They are abducted, beaten and tortured for money on camera, with the footage then shared online, destroying lives.
