No safe place to go: the plight of Ugandan LGBT refugees
32 Ugandan gay men, refugees in Kenya, were arrested in Nairobi on 8 February, were held in a cell at Kabiria Satelite Police Station until being eventually releaed at 7pm on Monday 10 February, after negotiations with lawyers working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The men were arrested at a gathering they had organised to send-off one of their friends scheduled for resettlement to a safe country, free from anti-gay persecution. Neighbours of the residence where the party took place had called the police, asking them to investigate the “suspicious” gathering of “non...