CEDAW/C/69/D/80/2015 named A., at the age of 10 years and that she currently had a girlfriend in Denmark named I.N.; (c) At the hearing before the Board on 5 December 2014, she stated that she had realized that she was a lesbian in 2007, when she had been with a woma n named J., but also that she had known that she was a lesbian before her marriage. She had then stated that her relationship with I., her current girlfriend, had started in September or October 2012. When informed that she had not mentioned that relationship previously during the asylum proceedings, the author responded that she had not been asked that question. 4.10 The Board also determined that the author was unable to give a detailed account of the operation of the bar that she, by her own account, had owned and run for four years, and that it appeared peculiar that she was able to operate the bar for that period without experiencing any problems with customers or the authorities, despite her statement that some customers had been openly lesbian. 4.11 The Board further emphasized that the author had also been unable to provide details of the planning and financing of her escape to Rwanda prior to her arrival in Denmark, including the names of the women with whom she had escaped to and stayed in Rwanda. The Board considered it unlikely that the home of the author ’s mother, which was located between 80 and 100 km from the bar, had been searched because of the incident at the bar on 6 November 2011. 4.12 Accordingly, the Board determined that the author had failed to demonstrate the probability, if she were returned to her country of origin, of her being at a specific and individual risk of persecution, under section 7 (1) of the Aliens Act, or of inhuman treatment or other punishment, under section 7 (2) of the Act. Against that background, the Board upheld the decision of 28 May 2014 of the Immigration Service to refuse asylum to the author. The State party fully endorses the Board ’s conclusion that the author’s statements on crucial elements of her grounds for asylum are inconsistent, elaborative and sketchy and that parts of her statements appear unlikely. The State party therefore submits that it does not accept the author ’s grounds for seeking asylum as a fact, nor that she is a lesbian. As to the author ’s claim that she is fleeing repression not only as a lesbian but also as a woman, the State party is of the view that the general situation of women in Uganda cannot justify the granting of asylum. 4.13 With respect to the author’s activities in Denmark and her argument that she has been active in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community since arriving in the country, the State party reaffirms that neither the Board nor the Government accepts that the author is in reality a lesbian or that she e xperienced conflicts with the authorities or private individuals in Uganda owing to her sexuality before her departure in 2012. Moreover, it cannot be accepted that the author will be at risk of persecution or abuse in Uganda solely as a result of her part icipation in the abovementioned activities, the likes of which she failed to mention when interviewed by the Immigration Service on 7 January 2013. 4.14 With respect to the author’s allegation that she was not allowed to call a witness at the Board hearing of 5 December 2014, the State party indicates that the author has failed to substantiate how that refusal resulted in any breach of the Convention in her case. The State party further recalls that, under section 54 (1) of the Aliens Act, the Board has the power to decide on the examination of asylum seekers and witnesses and on the production of other evidence. According to the Board ’s jurisprudence, asylum seekers are typically allowed to call witnesses only in cases in which they are directly linked to the grounds for seeking asylum. Witnesses are thus not normally allowed to give evidence solely with regard to the asylum seeker ’s general credibility. In the present case, the author wished to call her alleged girlfriend to testify with 18-06594 5/11