Nneka Obazee, a lesbian asylum seeker in the U.K., recently attempted suicide after finding out that she would be returned to her home country of Nigeria, the Independent reports.

Obazee, 34, was set to be flown on a charter flight to Nigeria along with her 19-year-old stepson, but she was hospitalized after overdosing on pain medication. Her stepson was ultimately deported.

A spokesperson for the activist group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants says that Obazee's suicide attempt "demonstrates how dire the situation would be for her if she was returned to Nigeria."

Obazee ran away from her abusive husband along with her stepson during a 2013 visit to the U.K., where she finally felt comfortable revealing her sexuality. Her family in Nigeria has since cut her off.

For the last four years Obazee has lived in Manchester, where she is an active member of the city's LGBT community and a grassroots LGBT asylum group. After her pre-deportation detainment, she suffered a nervous breakdown and had become increasingly suicidal.

"Sexual identity is a very difficult thing to have to ‘prove,’ not least when it has been the cause of significant trauma in the past,” says Asylum Aid's Rajiv Bera. "By the time they are recognized as refugees, they have experienced the effects of disbelief, destitution, and detention, often at a huge cost to their mental health."

“We are concerned that too often people’s sexuality is disbelieved and asylum claims incorrectly refused," adds Leila Zadeh, director of the U.K. Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group.

Obazee, who has had her case rejected by the Home Office and has failed two appeals tribunals, is currently being held at an immigration detention center as she undergoes further judicial review.

“Only two months ago we joyfully celebrated with our friend Nneka at London LGBT+ Pride and now all we can do is watch powerlessly as she is railroaded through an unjust and inhumane immigration system to face certain danger in Nigeria," the LGSMigrants representative continues.

Nigeria is one of 72 countries worldwide where homosexual acts are illegal: In the predominantly Christian south, offenders can face up to 14 years in prison; in the northern states, which have adopted sharia law, the maximum punishment is execution by stoning.

Nationwide, the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2011 criminalizes entering into a same-sex union or joining an LGBT-rights organization.

More than 50 people were arrested in April for attending what authorities claimed was a gay wedding in Zaria. Following a raid on a hotel in Lagos, police arrested 42 men in July for alleged acts of homosexuality.