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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: “The fact that it appears to be beyond any dispute that about 100 men, due to their actual or suspected sexual…”

On the recordMay 24, 2017
The fact that it appears to be beyond any dispute that about 100 men, due to their actual or suspected sexual orientation, were abducted, detained, and tortured, and as many as three have been killed, maybe more. That is outrageous.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Condemning the abduction and torture of men based on sexual orientation.

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