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LGBT activist and judo star is among former detainees

MARIE EFFA is a judoka and LGBT rights campaigner from Cameroon who came to Britain to play in last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

She had been in the country for just one month when immigration officials took her into Yarl’s Wood.

“They said I had travelled illegally but I showed them all the documentation,” she told the Star after speaking to the solidarity protest outside the detention centre.

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