Five weeks after her asylum claim was denied, Yvonne Niwahereza Jele says, she got a text from an angry uncle in Uganda who had learned — from a local newspaper — that she is gay and wanted by police. “Please give me protection,” Jele pleaded in an interview with the Star. He called police to have her arrested, she said in her asylum claim. When reached by email in Uganda, a man who identified himself as Jele’s husband, Patrick Jele, refused to comment on the abuse allegations. (Under the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S., refugee claimants are required to request refugee protection in the first safe country they arrive in.)

Source: thestar September 29, 2016 22:07 UTC