Gay asylum seekers rarely granted refugee status
98% of cases refused
A damning investigation has found that asylum-seekers fleeing homophobic persecution are nearly all refused permission to live in the UK. The findings are contained in a new report, ‘No Going Back’, whose writers found that gay, lesbian and bisexual asylum-seekers are regularly deported to face abuse and torture in countries including Nigeria, Jamaica and Uganda.
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