Jason Howard Green

Jason Howard Green

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Nigerian Granted Asylum in Canada

Norbert Okoli of Nigeria has been granted permission to remain in Canada. He made a plea to the Canadian Refugee and Immigration board to allow him to stay because he feared what would happen should he be forced to return home. Prior to fleeing Nigeria, Okoli was beaten and harrassed and forced to have sex with a women in an effort to rehabilitate him of his homosexuality. Okoli first moved to Canada in 2005 using a fake French passport. It may have helped his case when he showed the deciding board in Canada the scars he received on his biceps, abdomen, thighs and back from his harassers in Nigeria. His initial request for asylum was denied but this second appeal has been approved.

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