GREAT NEWS - 'Gay' Ugandan Brenda Namigadde wins temporary reprieve

A Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian has been granted an injunction by a High Court judge temporarily preventing her deportation.

Brenda Namiggade says she fears for her life if she is returned to Uganda where gay sex is against the law.
The Home Office earlier said a court had ruled she was "not homosexual" and therefore did not have a genuine claim.
Prominent gay rights campaigner David Kato was beaten to death near the Ugandan capital Kampala on Wednesday.
'Real risk' Lawyers for Ms Namiggade lodged papers at the High Court asking a judge to grant an injunction against her deportation, which was due to take place on Friday evening.
When the BBC spoke to Ms Namiggade by phone on Friday afternoon she was already being escorted to Heathrow airport.
Her lawyer, Abdulrahman Jafar, said he would argue that Ms Namiggade should be allowed to remain in the UK regardless of her sexuality.
"The press coverage about her activities certainly expose her to a real risk if she is to be returned to Uganda," he said.
The Home Office confirmed the granting of the injuction and said Ms Namigadde would not have to be deported on Friday night.
Ms Namigadde, who was held at a detention centre just outside London, has told the BBC's Network Africa programme she was "shaking" with fear at the prospect of returning to Uganda.
She said she fled to the UK in 2002 after being beaten and victimised because of her sexuality.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, has said people facing persecution for their sexual orientation in Uganda should be given refugee status in other countries.
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has urged Home Secretary Theresa May to halt the removal of Ms Namigadde and allow her to make a fresh asylum appeal.
'Hang them' A UK Border Agency Spokesman said: "Ms Namigadde's case has been carefully considered by both the UK Border Agency and the courts on three separate occasions and she has been found not to have a right to remain here.
"An immigration judge found on the evidence before them that Ms Namigadde was not homosexual."
The Government was committed to stopping the removal of asylum seekers who had left their countries because of their sexual orientation, the spokesman added.
"However, when someone is found not to have a genuine claim we expect them to leave voluntarily."
Mr Kato had sued a local newspaper which outed him as homosexual.
Uganda's Rolling Stone newspaper published the photographs of several people it said were gay, including Mr Kato, with the headline "Hang them".
It is unclear whether the killing of Mr Kato was linked to his campaigns.
Homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda, with punishments of 14 years in prison. An MP recently tried to increase the penalties to include the death sentence in some cases.

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