The emo killings in Iraq were a string of homicides that were part of a campaign against Iraqi teenage boys who dressed in a Westernized emo style. At least six, and up to 70 young men were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Baghdad & Iraq during March 2012.

In February 2012, the Baghdad Morality Police
published a statement on the Iraqi Interior Ministry
website criticizing emo teens for wearing "strange,
tight clothes with pictures of skulls on them,"
and "rings in their noses and tongues."
The statement condemned emo as Satanic,
and quoted Colonel Mushtaq Taleb al-Mahemdawi
as saying the Morality Police had been given
official approval by the Interior Ministry
"to eliminate [the phenomenon] as soon as possible
since it's detrimentally affecting the society
and becoming a danger." The New York Times
reported that in the weeks following, anti-emo flyers,
threatening death "unless gay men cut their hair,
stopped wearing the clothing of devil worshipers
and stopped listening to metal, emo and rap music,"
began appearing in neighborhoods across Baghdad.