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Gay sex is criminalised in Pakistan under a combination of Sharia law principles and colonial law imposed by British rulers.
News

Asylum seeker who sold a kidney to flee homophobic Pakistan wins crucial legal battle in bid to remain in UK

Matilda Davies - January 29, 2021

Non-binary artist who won landmark asylum claim is 'one of the lucky ones'
UK

Non-binary asylum seeker who won landmark appeal to stay in UK recalls horrific beating at hands of police

Vic Parsons - December 28, 2020

Home office LGBT+ asylum seekers
UK

Lesbian who was gang-raped after being unlawfully deported wins stunning court victory against Home Office

Josh Milton - September 28, 2020

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Ghana: Man violently beaten by vigilante group on suspicion of being gay beheading
US

Asylum seeker beaten, doused in petrol and threatened with beheading by his own dad finally told he deserves refuge

Lily Wakefield - April 2, 2020

uganda lesbian granted asylum in germany
World

Ugandan lesbian granted asylum in Germany, but judge insists it will not set a precedent for LGBT asylum seekers

Lily Wakefield - March 10, 2020

Gay Saudi journalists
Current Affairs

Two Saudi journalists being held in asylum centre after being outed as gay by government for contact with foreign media

Patrick Kelleher - November 18, 2019

Transgender woman Roxsana Hernandez, who died while seeking asylum in the US from AIDS related illness.
Trans

Immigration officials deleted vital video of a transgender asylum seeker who died in custody

Patrick Kelleher - October 24, 2019

Trans

A trans refugee held by ICE for 20 months has finally been released

Emma Powys Maurice - September 11, 2019

LGBT+ rights campaigners complain of a "culture of disbelief” in the Home Office's treatment of LGBT+ asylum seekers.
UK

Court accepted gay asylum seeker before claiming boyfriend isn’t ‘effeminate’ enough

Nick Duffy - August 23, 2019

Interpreters have used derogatory slang and made judgements about asylum applicants' sexual orientation or gender identity
UK

A judge rejected an LGBT+ asylum seeker for not having a gay ‘demeanour’

Emma Powys Maurice - August 21, 2019

News

Transgender asylum seeker dies in Texas after six weeks in ICE custody

Vic Parsons - June 3, 2019

Current Affairs

LGBT refugees explain why they fled to the US

Nick Duffy - October 31, 2018

Current Affairs

Afghan teenager denied asylum in Austria because he doesn’t ‘act or dress’ gay

- August 15, 2018

A plane representing Chick-fil-A being banned from an airport in New York
Current Affairs

British pilot ‘saves life of gay asylum seeker’

Josh Jackman - August 7, 2018

Current Affairs

Calls for urgent review of LGBT asylum protections after shocking lapses exposed

Nick Duffy - March 5, 2018

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