UK: Indian trans asylum seeker fears deportation could lead to ‘torture’
Sameer Neelam originally wanted to take his own life after he was 'outed' in Indian media. A trans man who fled to the UK from India has said he will face “torture” at home if he is forced to be deported. Sameer Neelam, who was “outed” in Indian media, said he originally wanted to take his own life before finding asylum in Bradford, northern England. According to BBC Look North, however, he now faces deportation back to India where he fears he will be “looked down on, tortured, discriminated,” or even “eliminated.” “I can’t even get a job if I started living as a man there,” he said. He was previously a leading local official in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, where he pressured to live publicly as a woman. He added: “Here I’m considered as what I am. In India I can’t dress like this. Nobody counts me a...