Again?!
I woke up this morning to hear news that Brenda Namigadde, who came to Britain in 2002, in fear of her life from homophobic attacks, is to be returned to Uganda (where homophobia seems to be institutionalised and threaded through large parts of society), placing her in great risk of danger.
It keeps on happening, and every time it does, it is disgraceful, deeply inhumane, and an insult to all LGBT people. I attended a demonstration in London, in 2008, against the deportation to Iran, of Mehdi Kazemi, and the eventual success in his application for asylum in the UK gave me reason to hope that Britain would no longer knowingly send people back to life-threatening situations: clearly I got my hopes up too soon.
For a country which professes to uphold modern ideas and ideals of human rights, Britain is committing hideous hypocrisy every time it does this.
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