Success! Mehdi Kazemi Given Asylum
May. 21st, 2008 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stinglikeabeeRemember this post way back in March about Mehdi Kasemi, the 19 year old Iranian student who was forced to claim for asylum in the UK, was denied, and then fled to the Netherlands only to have that country turn down the request to hear his case?
BBC News: A gay Iranian teenager who said he could be executed if he was sent home has been given asylum in Britain.
Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2005, but later discovered his boyfriend had been charged with sodomy in Iran and hanged.
ETA: Forgot to add this part.
BBC News: A gay Iranian teenager who said he could be executed if he was sent home has been given asylum in Britain.
Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2005, but later discovered his boyfriend had been charged with sodomy in Iran and hanged.
ETA: Forgot to add this part.
Where Mr Kazemi's case is concerned, in March the home secretary agreed to reconsider his situation after his first asylum bid failed.
The UK Border Agency now says it will allow him asylum after reviewing his case.
Fantastic news! I am so glad the UK Border Agency reconsidered the case, and that so many people led the charge to support Kasemi's application. A victory for humanitarianism :D
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Date: 2008-05-21 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-22 04:22 am (UTC)And thanks, as always, for your news linkups!
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Date: 2008-05-22 08:23 pm (UTC)