Netherlands: Gay Refugee at Risk of Deportation to Iran

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Gay Refugee at Risk of Deportation to Iran

http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2435&lead=1
03/09/2008

"(Netherlands) - Mehdi Kazemi, a Gay asylum applicant from Iran, is in detention in the Netherlands. He is fighting attempts by the Dutch government to return him to the UK. Mehdi fled Britain and sought asylum in the Netherlands because the British government wants to deport him back to Iran. The Home Office bid to deport an Iranian Gay asylum seeker will put him at risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture and execution."