A man suing for libel claims he was forced to go into hiding from the Taliban after a Guardian article created the “perception he is a gay man”, the High Court has been told.
Safiullah Ahmadi is claiming more than £100,000 in damages over an article published on The Guardian’s website in October 2022, headlined: “Gay Afghan student ‘murdered by Taliban’ as anti-LGBTQ+ violence rises”.
The article concerned the killing of Hamed Sabouri, a gay medical student, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2022, but Mr Ahmadi claims the image originally posted with the story was of him.
