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Uche is a gay Nigerian man who arrived in the UK in 2005. Released in late 2011 from nearly two years in immigration detention, he is still fighting deportation to Nigeria. His friend and supporter, Bryony Whitmarsh, and Paul Canning of LGBT Asylum News, tell his story below - a story that reveals just [...]

The Supreme Court has ruled that two gay men from Iran and Cameroon have the right to asylum in the UK. Lord Hope, who read out the judgment, said: “To compel a homosexual person to pretend that his sexuality does not exist or suppress the behaviour by which to manifest itself is to deny his [...]

98% sent back? The Independent’s article makes a bad situation worse It’s painful when one has to criticize a friend, especially when he is trying to be helpful, but an apparently gay asylum friendly article in the May 23 issue of the “Independent,” “Virtually all gay asylum-seekers sent back to persecution” calls for some critical [...]

Malawian Justice System Violates Human Rights Join the Online Protest against Malawian Governments horrendous persecution of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga To: Malawian Government, Secretary General of the United Nations and the South African Government We condemn in the strongest terms the conviction of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga in a court in Blantyre for [...]

In a joint statement Refugee Action, the Refugee Council and LGBT Asylum News have welcomed the Coalition government’s agreement’s brief mention of LGBT asylum and hope it will be developed in a way that will lead to meaningful change in the way these cases are dealt with. The Coalition agreement says (page 18): “We will [...]