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submits that the risk of such violence must be real, personal and foreseeable . In that
regard, the State party asserts that the author has failed to establish a prima facie case
for the purposes of the admissibility of her communication to the Committee under
article 4 (2) (c) of the Optional Protocol, on the grounds that she has n ot substantiated
that she would be exposed to a real, personal and foreseeable risk of serious forms of
gender-based violence if she were returned to Uganda.
4.5 Should the Committee find the communication to be admissible and proceed
with its consideration of the merits, the State party asserts that the author has not
sufficiently substantiated that she would be exposed to a real, personal and
foreseeable risk of serious forms of gender-based violence if returned to Uganda.
4.6 With respect to the author’s identity, the State party submits that, when
considering the author’s asylum application, the Danish Immigration Service wrongly
determined that the author’s identity was that of a Ugandan national, A.N., born on
12 November 1973, who had entered Denmark on 6 April 2012 in possession of a
valid travel document and a valid business visa issued by the Embassy of Norway in
Kampala.
4.7 On 31 January 2013, the Danish Immigration Service rejected the author ’s
asylum application under section 7 of the Aliens Act. The author appealed against that
decision and, on 18 April 2013, the Refugee Appeals Board remitted the case to the
Service for reconsideration and further investigation into the author ’s identity. On
28 May 2014, the Service again rejected the author’s asylum application. The
decision was again wrongly addressed to A.N. because, owing to a regrettable error,
the author’s name had not been corrected in the Service’s aliens register. The author
appealed against that decision, and the Board’s decision of 5 December 2014 also
wrongly bore the name of A.N. However, the author’s statement on her correct
identity was accepted as fact, and the decision was corrected three days later with her
real name, A.S.
4.8 The State party further submits that the issue of the author’s identity has been
sufficiently examined by the national authorities, that her statement on her identity
has been accepted as fact and that she has failed to substantiate any breach of the
Convention on account of that issue. Her claim that the f ailure to reregister her name
constitutes discrimination against women is completely unsubstantiated and, in the
opinion of the State party, evidently incorrect.
4.9 Regarding the author’s grounds for asylum, the State party recalls that the Board
dismissed, in its entirety, the author’s statement concerning those grounds, including
her sexuality and her reason for leaving Uganda. In its assessment of the author ’s
credibility, the Board emphasized that the author had made inconsistent, elaborative
and sketchy statements on crucial elements of her grounds for asylum and that parts
of her statements also appeared unlikely. The Board considered, in particular, the
author’s statements with respect to when and how she had discovered that she was a
lesbian and on her sexual relationships with other women. In that respect, the State
party recalls that, during the asylum proceedings, the author made the following
statements:
(a) On 7 January 2013, she told the Danish Immigration Service that she had
discovered that she was a lesbian in 2007, when some women had come to the bar
and asked her whether she would like to become involved in a lesbian sexual
relationship. She had first watched two of the women have sex before deciding to
start having relationships with women herself. She had had one lesbian relationship,
with a woman named J.N., which had lasted from 2007 to 2011;
(b) In a brief submitted for the purpose of the hearing before the Board on
5 December 2014, the author explained that she had had sex with anoth er girl,
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