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Wednesday, July 6, 2011
A Jamaican lesbian was awarded "refugee protection" in the United Kingdom by a Tribunal following her appeal that she would be at risk of persecution and clinical depression should she return to Jamaica.
The woman left Jamaica to study in the UK in 2003, she currently resides in Stoke-on-Trent. She was originally refused the right to remain in the UK by the Home Office. However, she appealed on the grounds that in Jamaica, which she described as a "deeply homophobic" country, she had been threatened with 'corrective rape' and suffered clinical depression. She further stated that the UK gives her the right to live as an openly gay person and that given the situation in Jamaica her girlfriend would be unwilling to return to the country with her.
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