The US deported a gay asylum-seeker to a third country where homosexuality is illegal

DAKAR, Senegal — Being gay in Morocco is illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. But it was the violence from her family that forced Farah, a 21-year-old gay woman, to flee the country.

After a long journey to the United States and a third-country deportation by the Trump administration , however, Farah said she is now back in Morocco and in hiding.