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YD Algeria v Secretary of State for the Home Department [] EWCA Civ 14 December Lewis, Peter Jackson and Asplin LJJ have dismissed the appeal of Mr YD who alleged that the country guidance in OO Gay men Algeria CG [] UKUT 65 was flawed. The Court of Appeal determined that the reasoning in OO Algeria is sound and the tribunal in the present case was entitled to find on the evidence that, outside the family, a gay man in Algeria would not face a real risk of persecution. Mr YD entered the UK illegally in July , aged

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W aking after a night at sea, I was elated to look out of the cabin window and see the city of Algiers, blazing white. In the cabin, my toddler son was still sleeping. The journey would have been familiar to British travellers of the 19th century who arrived here by steamship, but these days few foreign tourists come to Algeria. So when I was invited as a guest of the British Council Algeria as part of a literary exchange, I jumped at the chance.

Algeria is not a safe place for queers. Gay sex is totally illegal; punishable by up to two years' imprisonment. Arrest and torture by the police and military are ever-present dangers. The victims have no legal redress.