Help raise Legal Fees for Oyekunle
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Oyekunle is a gay Nigerian asylum seeker who is being detained in Colnbrook detention centre. On 31st Jan he was due to be forcibly deported on a charter flight along with 99 other detainees, inc 1 bisexual man and many who have been in the country for years with family and children.
Oyekunle's deportation would have been illegal as he had never even been given an interview for his asylum claim, there had never been any decision made. But he was not able to fight this in part becasue he has difficulties with English and little money to pay exorbitant legal fees.
It was the coverage and social media support gained as part of the #StopCharterFlightsCampaign that led to a barrister putting in for an injunction on the promise that he could be paid later, he is also putting in a claim for wrongful detention for Oyekunle.
Oyekunle is one example of many LGBT people who face deportation daily from the UK to regimes where LGBT people are imprisoned, tortured and persecuted.
Please help Oyekunle raise the money needed to apy the barrister for the work he has done tonight and tomorrow (£1000) and some money to help with future legal costs (£500), we hope at some point we can find him a legal aid solicitor.
Articles about Oyekunle...
https://www.rt.com/uk/375792-gay-nigeria-deportation-protest/
http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/lgbt-asylum-seekers-deported-every-day-use-pardon/
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE DONATED! we have reached our target for Oyekunle's legal fees, so anything raised over £1500 will go to Roots to Return who will help those who did not make it off the charter flight to appeal from Nigeria and get them home to their families and loved ones.
Oyekunle's deportation would have been illegal as he had never even been given an interview for his asylum claim, there had never been any decision made. But he was not able to fight this in part becasue he has difficulties with English and little money to pay exorbitant legal fees.
It was the coverage and social media support gained as part of the #StopCharterFlightsCampaign that led to a barrister putting in for an injunction on the promise that he could be paid later, he is also putting in a claim for wrongful detention for Oyekunle.
Oyekunle is one example of many LGBT people who face deportation daily from the UK to regimes where LGBT people are imprisoned, tortured and persecuted.
Please help Oyekunle raise the money needed to apy the barrister for the work he has done tonight and tomorrow (£1000) and some money to help with future legal costs (£500), we hope at some point we can find him a legal aid solicitor.
Articles about Oyekunle...
https://www.rt.com/uk/375792-gay-nigeria-deportation-protest/
http://www.huckmagazine.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/lgbt-asylum-seekers-deported-every-day-use-pardon/
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE DONATED! we have reached our target for Oyekunle's legal fees, so anything raised over £1500 will go to Roots to Return who will help those who did not make it off the charter flight to appeal from Nigeria and get them home to their families and loved ones.
Organizer
Karen Doyle
Organizer
