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GAYS AND LBIANS SEEKG ASYLUM IN U.S. MAY FD A HARD ROAD

Laws like Uganda's that outlaw homosexualy may enurage some gay people abroad to seek asylum the U.S. But provg a "well-found fear of persecutn" is not an easy path. * gay seeking asylum *

Chechen thori taed and tortured more than 100 gay and bisexual men the regn, killg as many as 20.

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Activists prott Uganda's anti-gay legislatn Nairobi, Kenya, this month.

Nathan, 19, is gay. ' " More than 70 untri have laws on the books crimalizg homosexualy, cludg Nigeria, Rsia and India.

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And on Monday, Ugandan Print Yoweri Meveni signed to law a measure that greatly expands the penalti for beg gay that untry. A lifetime sentence n be imposed for so-lled "aggravated homosexualy, " fed as sex wh a mor or while HIV-posive.

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Those sanctns are already drivg gays and lbians unrground. In the cy, he says, he was threatened by neighbors for beg gay. Even before Meveni signed the anti-gay bill, Ugandan activists were warng that the law would give license to more vlence agast gays.

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Frank Mugisha, director of the group Sexual Mori Uganda, says, "We're gog to see people gettg beaten on the streets, we're gog to see people thrown out by their fai, we're gog to see people beg evicted by their landlords, we're gog to see people losg jobs, we're gog to see people thrown out of school, bee they are perceived or not as homosexuals. " Still, based on her social media ntacts Uganda, Nathan timat anywhere between 2, 000 and 3, 000 gay Ugandans will seek asylum the U.

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