...Abuse of LGBTQ+ people in Kenya is widespread and well-documented, including physical violence, death threats, harassment by state officials, stigma, expulsion from educational institutions, blackmail, extortion, and murder.

Now, a new joint report from the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International documents those same horrors confronting refugees in Kenya fleeing persecution from neighboring countries like Uganda.

“Kenya is the only country in the East and Horn of Africa that offers asylum to individuals who seek protection because of their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics,” the report says. “However, national legislation in Kenya criminalizes same-sex sexual relations and abuse of the rights of LGBTI people is widespread.”

Nowhere is that abuse more widespread than at the notorious Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya’s northwest, just miles from the border with Uganda.