London -
Agents with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) have raided 35 locations in England and Scotland in an effort to put a halt to a major people-smuggling network. Forty additional raids are being carried out in Belgium and France.
A leading UK gay-equality organisation says asylum seekers who have been raped, tortured and threatened with death because of their sexual orientation in their home country are being deported because of systemic discrimination in the asylum system.
