[news] Britain Denies Gay Iranian's Asylum Request

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

A 35-year-old gay Iranian is on a hunger strike in a U.K. jail to protest a deportation order that will send him back to Iran. Saeed Faraji was arrested by British immigration police on April 20...The Home Office refused his asylum request on the grounds that he could not prove that homosexuals are subjected to "torture, inhumane or degrading treatment" in Iran.

  


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