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Title: Reform the Homophobic Refuge System, Gay Activist Tells Trade Unionists
Post by: Natasha on July 03, 2008, 08:31:28 AM
Reform the Homophobic Refuge System, Gay Activist Tells Trade Unionists

http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/Archive/08/Jul/0304.htm
7/3/2008

"LONDON, July 3, 2008  —  The British government is being urged to "initiate urgent reforms to the asylum system to end the injustice whereby many genuine gay refugees being sent back to viciously homophobic countries like Iran, Uganda, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Jamaica, Belarus and Saudi Arabia."