Valéry Ediage Ekwedde, a Cameroonian gay man who has failed to obtain refugee status in the UK, says he will be deported to Douala on Tuesday. Ekwedde, who is being held at a detention centre for illegal migrants in Harmondsworth, outside Heathrow airport, says he will be persecuted if he returns to Cameroon.
"If I go back there, my life is really in danger," Ekwedde told RFI in a phone interview. "I feel very bad and depressed about it because my life is in danger. They will kill me over there."
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