A gay refugee from an African country where people are jailed for being a homosexual does qualify for asylum, the EU rules

The fear of imprisonment for homosexuality in African countries is grounds for asylum in the European Union, Europe's highest court has ruled.
According to the European Court of Justice, a gay refugee from a country where people are jailed for being homosexual does qualify as a persecuted group eligible for asylum.
The court's ruling concerned three homosexual men from Sierra Leone, Uganda and Senegal who had sought asylum in Holland, but is binding for all EU countries, including Britain.
"Homosexual acts are a criminal offence in those three countries and may lead to serious punishment, from heavy fines to life imprisonment in certain cases," the ECJ ruled.
"A term of imprisonment which accompanies a legislative provision which punishes homosexual acts may constitute an act of persecution per se, provided that it is actually applied."
The EU judges also ruled that asylum seekers should not be expected to conceal their homosexuality to avoid persecution in their home country.
"The court considers that requiring members of a social group sharing the same sexual orientation to conceal it is incompatible with the recognition of a characteristic so fundamental to a person's identity that the persons concerned cannot be required to renounce it," the judges ruled.
"Therefore, an applicant for asylum cannot be expected to conceal his homosexuality in his country of origin in order to avoid persecution."
Homosexual acts are illegal across Africa including in countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya and Botswana, which have close links to the West.
Under international law people from a social group with a well-founded fear of persecution or human rights violations can claim asylum status.
It will be up to national authorities to decide whether the situation in an applicant asylum seeker's country of origin amounts to persecution, particularly "whether the term of imprisonment is applied in practice".
"The UK has a proud history of granting asylum to those who need it and applications are carefully considered before a decision is made," said a Government spokesman.
"However, applicants must establish that they face persecution and inhuman or degrading treatment in their country of origin to qualify for our protection."
Next year, following another Dutch case, the EU courts are expected to rule on a much more difficult matter: how national asylum authorities should verify a person's claim that they are homosexual.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10432984/EU-rules-that-gay-Africans-are-entitled-to-asylum.html

usmsam: A gay refugee from an African country where people are jailed for being a homosexual does qualify for asylum, the EU rules

isale_gan2:



So what they need to do is start issuing visa to anyone who walks into their embassy claiming fear of persecution for being g.a.y! Don't just run your mouth, EU countries; show us you mean it.

usmsam:
All that remains now is for Nigerians to pretend to be gay so that they will ruin the whole thing. Mtschewww.

Magic Bishop:

Trust me. No straight dude will pretend to be gay for a second.

In some ways, I like this new immigration offer. We get rid of an increasing and disturbing fagg0t population and send it back to where the culture of butth0le surfing began

usmsam:
They've done it in the past. The clause in this new ruling is that the only countries that the rule applies to are those in which the gay people will be persecuted in. eg. Nigeria where being gay automatically gives you 14 years imprisonment.
All that remains now is for Nigerians to pretend to be gay so that they will ruin the whole thing. Mtschewww.

Vivly: What? Nigerians and thier love for foreign countries? Most people are sure going to pretend to be gay to seek asylum.

Magic Bishop:

Not when Immigration authorities check ur butth0le circumference to be sure and arrange for accommodation afterwards with a lonely 60 yr old tranny dying from gay cancer

Vivly: Is that part of the screening exercise?

Magic Bishop:

Trust me. No straight dude will pretend to be gay for a second.

In some ways, I like this new immigration offer. We get rid of an increasing and disturbing fagg0t population and send it back to where the culture of butth0le surfing began

GSKing:

. we will help your country grow!

isale_gan2:

How will that ruin it? The Europeans are crying out to free and help the g.a.y.s. So, give them all the g.a.y.s they can handle. Some Naijas are doing much worse than pretending to be gay just to get into ridiculous places like Libya and India, for Pete's sake. Naija's changed a lot since I was a kid, I'll tell you that! I mean, Africans dying trying to cross the Sahara desert or traveling in rickety boats to get to North Africa or some Spanish island.

Anyway, we see all the time those who claim to now be "ex-homos." So, it shouldn't be a problem if some desperate fool gets into Europe, then discovers 5 or so years later, he actually wasn't a homo after all. Are they going to deport him?

I'm not supporting deceit by visa-seekers, but this holier-than-thou know-it-all honkies irritate me when they feel they should dictate how we live and what we should believe.

Magic Bishop:

Not when Immigration authorities check ur butth0le circumference to be sure and arrange for accommodation afterwards with a lonely 60 yr old tranny dying from gay cancer

Rofllllll

Magic Bishop:

Not when Immigration authorities check ur butth0le circumference to be sure and arrange for accommodation afterwards with a lonely 60 yr old tranny dying from gay cancer

usmsam:

I think this is a good development. Let them take all the gays from Nigeria and let naija be gay-free. Problem has changed hands. Our prisons are full enough and people are tired of lynching them already.

Rogers210: people like you are the ones contributing to the backwardness of Africa. You want to lynch homosexuals when you have a load of problems unsolved in your own sorry life. You better think.

Magic Bishop:

Gaylord, Africa has a lot of problems agreed and so we don't need fagg0ts adding to the sh1t we have to deal with.

Google The R@pe of Men and see the atrocities being committed by Gay Rebels of Congo.

We are now at elevated levels of "Houston We got A Problem" when it comes to your fellow roaches.

usmsam:

I think this is a good development. Let them take all the gays from Nigeria and let naija be gay-free. Problem has changed hands. Our prisons are full enough and people are tired of lynching them already.