Oyekunle a gay Nigerian asylum seeker is being detained in Colnbrook detention centre at West Drayton.
On January 31 he was due to be forcibly deported on a charter flight along with 99 other detainees, including one 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 been interviewed by Home Office officials and had never been given a decision on his asylum claim to remain in the UK.
Oyekunle was not able to fight this in part because he has difficulties with English and little money to pay exorbitant legal fees.
Following a social media campaign as part of the #StopCharterFlightsCampaign, a barrister agreed to register an injunction stopping his removal on the promise that he would be paid later. He has also registered a claim for the 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.
To help Oyekunle raise the money he needs to pay the barrister for the work he has done and to help with future legal costs please click here:
Campaigner hope that at some time in the near future they can find him a legal aid solicitor.
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.
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