AFRICAN ACTIVIST
In the wake of the murder of Ugandan activist David Kato, a British High Court judge has stayed the deportation of Brenda Namigadde to Uganda. Brenda says she is lesbian and fled Uganda in 2002 after being beaten and victimised because of her sexuality. MP David Bahati, the author of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009, has threatened to have her arrested unless she “repents and reforms.” The New York Times reports:
A 29-year-old Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian won a last-minute stay of deportation on Friday night from a British High Court judge who heard her lawyers plead that her life would be at risk if she was forced to return to her homeland.
The judge’s ruling came after Brenda Namigadde, who came to Britain as a student in 2003, had been taken from an immigration detention center outside London to Heathrow Airport ahead of a flight to Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Her lawyer said she had already boarded the flight when immigration officials were notified of the judge’s ruling and then escorted Ms. Namigadde off the aircraft and returned her to the detention center.
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