Today the British government plans to deport a young Ugandan lesbian whose asylum application was denied. She came to the UK two years ago after being threatened by her father, a Muslim, over her sexuality. During her asylum hearing a judge suggested that at the age of 17 she was too young to know her sexuality. Faridah Kenyini, who is now 20, has been in a stable relationship with a British woman for the past two years. Her partner has volunteered to have a civil marriage ceremony binding here to Ms. Kenyini and then travel to Uganda with her. They would then have to apply for a "fiancée" visa, which could of course be denied, to allow Ms. Kenyini to return with here partner.
Oh, and Faridah faces up to seven years imprisonment in Uganda due to her sexual preference. In a cruelly ironic twist the Ugandan law prohibiting homosexuality is apparently a holdover from the British colonial period.
Oh, and Faridah faces up to seven years imprisonment in Uganda due to her sexual preference. In a cruelly ironic twist the Ugandan law prohibiting homosexuality is apparently a holdover from the British colonial period.
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