Two HIV-positive individuals gunned down in Iraq

Farid Abbas received a telephone call from someone who accused him of having an "indecent disease" and who told him Abbas would be killed "for the safety of the country." Two days later, Abbas was gunned down in a drive-by shooting by a man who yelled at him: "Death to all people who carry diseases acquired from indecent methods against Islamic beliefs." Abbas had been HIV-positive for nine years.

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