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The European Union Court of Justice ruled Thursday that men and women avoiding imprisonment in their home countries because they are gay may have grounds to seek asylum in the EU’s 28 nations. Globally, more than 70 countries have laws that could imprison people on the basis of sexual orientation. Ruling on the cases of 3 people from Sierra Leone, Uganda and Senegal seeking asylum in the Netherlands, the EU court said these laws “may constitute an act of persecution per se.” It added that someone gay can’t be expected to hide to avoid persecution because it would mean renouncing a “characteristic fundamental to a person’s identity.
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