Court rejects asylum seeker’s gay persecution claims

A Nigerian man, who claimed he was persecuted by Islamist extremists in his home country because he is a homosexual, has lost an action in the High Court against a decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal denying him asylum.

The man, who cannot be identified, had claimed that his love partner and his mother were killed in two separate homophobic attacks. The High Court heard the tribunal had found the man not to be credible.

He claimed he had been having sex with his partner in his house when he started hearing loud Islamic chanting outside his bedroom window.