Court rejects HIV asylum seeker

[4me2]

Court rejects HIV asylum seeker


Lawyers said the woman's life would be in danger if she were sent home


An HIV-positive Ugandan woman's claim to stay in the UK has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.
Her lawyers argued that a lack of medical care in Uganda would lead to her early death, and this would amount to cruel and degrading treatment.
The government denies this, saying all NHS HIV drugs are available in Uganda.
The court agreed that if the unnamed woman were sent back to Uganda, there would be no violation of the bar on inhuman or degrading treatment.
When the woman entered the UK in March 1998 under an assumed name, she was seriously ill and was admitted to hospital.
Diagnosed
Soon afterwards, solicitors lodged an asylum application on her behalf, claiming she had been raped by government soldiers in Uganda because of her association with the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group in the north of the country.
The lawyers argued that her life would be in danger if she were returned to Uganda.
By November 1998, she was diagnosed with two illnesses which are known to be indicators of having Aids, and as being in an extremely advanced state of HIV infection.
Her asylum claim was rejected in March 2001, a decision she appealed against.
In rejecting her claim, the secretary of state found no evidence that Ugandan authorities were interested in her and that treatment of Aids in Uganda was comparable to any other African country. The secretary of state also found that all the major anti-viral drugs were available in Uganda at highly subsidised prices. In January the government sent a terminally ill Ghanaian woman who had been receiving treatment in the UK back to her country because her visa had expired.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421045.stm

[flumperino]

Makes me laugh that she's never been given the right to stay, but she's already been here for 10 years.

[rIKmAN]

Damn right as well!

[crazyadi]

FFS!!!! im not syaing they are wrong to send her back! cos they are BUT.....they put all this effort into sending a sick woman back but let the fucking cock sucking terrorists, that preach hate and destruction, have fucking what ever they want!!!

warped fucking warped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BertRoot]

Good. I have been following this one and have been waiting for them to bin her off properly. I posted a load of comments about her in the last thread about this.

[gunner]

What? This is an outrage.... She should of been sent home years ago. It is nice to see immigration are finally doing their job.

[doughboy]

good...fuck off and take your aids with you

[flumperino]

good...fu(k off and take your aids with you

lmao...pretty much sums up what we're all thinking I reckon

[blaggard]

It's taken 10 years and a bloody fortune to do the obvious, how long would she have lasted in the States?? or Australia?? ffs this Country is fucked up!

[rookie]

least the goverment are actually doing somthing about immagrants now
the uk will always have a major problem with immagrants.

shame i reckon there are lots of genuine asylm seekers out there but thousands
that abuse the system

[B B Leo]

i think the goverment should set a body up at airports and docks. when any immagrate comes in put them up in a big room for a night. listen to ther case then send them straight home

[4me2]

Good. I have been following this one and have been waiting for them to bin her off properly. I posted a load of comments about her in the last thread about this.

Were they clean ?

[Thrush]

least the goverment are actually doing somthing about immagrants now
the uk will always have a major problem with immagrants.

shame i reckon there are lots of genuine asylm seekers out there but thousands
that abuse the system

The government is doing fuck all to be honest, sending a dying woman back home who's already been in the country for 10 years? Big fucking woop. I'd be more impressed if they were dealing with the repeat offenders who are actually paid to leave the country and are back the next day on the eurostar.

I don't agree with health tourists I think it's fucking disgusting, however, If I was in the same position I'd do the exact same thing as her, hell she's been given an extra ten years of life by being here in the uk fighting the case.