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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbySeptember 17th, 2014
John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has tentatively approved a request for asylum from Ugandan LGBT activist John Abdallah Wambere. Wambere, who co-founded Spectrum Uganda fourteen years ago and is known by his nickname “Longjones,” filed the request last May, saying that he feared persecution if he were to return to Uganda. He also was potentially liable for prosecution under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act which President Yoweri Museveni signed into law in February. The law has since been nullified by Uganda’s Constitutional Court on a technicality, but the generally dangerous anti-gay atmosphere remains. According to the Washington Blade:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a letter dated Sept. 11 stated John “Longjones” Abdallah Wambere’s asylum request “has been recommended for approval,” pending the results of a mandatory background check. “I am overwhelmed,” said Wambere in a press release from Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, a Boston-based LGBT legal advocacy group that represents him. “I must say that I am blessed, but there are many stories out there.”
…Wambere, 41, noted in his asylum petition that he has been threatened, evicted from his home and publicly outed as a gay man by several Ugandan newspapers.
Just a week after the Anti-Homosexuality Act was signed into law, the Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper launched
Inside spread of Red Pepper, dated Saturday, March 1. Wambere’s photo appeared at top left. (Click to enlarge.)
an anti-gay vigilante campaign. which included Wambere’s photo under a headline, “Ugandan Homos Cabinet List Leaks.” Since then, clients abandoned his travel agency, he had been questioned by relatives and shunned by neighbors, was evicted, was harassed on the street by strangers and received threatening anonymous phone calls.
Wambere appeared in the documentary Call Me Kuchu, which portrays the hardships experienced by LGBT Ugandans, including the brutal murder of LGBT activist David Kato in January 2011. He also appeared in the 2010 Current TV documentary Missionaries of Hate.
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September 18th, 2014
Canadian Conservative politicians may well have caused this woman’s death – if she is killed, they should all be charged with First Degree Murder. And if anyone suggests that Canadians are “nicer” than Americans, point them at the ugly, racist comments.
“Canada shows lack of kindness in deporting harmless Pakistani woman”
Her crime worthy of the death penalty?
“She had a falling out with her former husband that ended with her being accused, falsely she says but that would hardly matter, of adultery and prostitution. The husband has divorced her.”
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2014/09/16/christie-blatchford-canada-shows-lack-of-kindness-in-deporting-harmless-pakistani-woman/
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