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Written by jay
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:45 |
A 19-year-old Iranian gay named Mehdi Kazhami has bigger problems than you or we do on the average, complacent, celebaby-filled American day. He left Iran, which doesn't so much care for the homosex, and went to England three years ago to study and apply for asylum. His reasons were sound: His boyfriend back home had been executed for sodomy and it seemed likely he would be too were he to return home. When his bid for asylum in Britain was rejected, he traveled to the Netherlands to try again, because the Netherlands, being the big gay capital of Europe, has historically been extremely sympathetic to gay Iranian asylum seekers.
But because of tedious legal issues regarding an asylum seeker's
original place of entry within the EU, The Hague this week rejected
Kazhami's asylum bid and is telling him to return to Britain from
whence he came. His attorney is weighing an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, however it does not appear that Britain intends to be complete assholes about this. Britain's Border and Immigration Agency issued a statement regarding Kazhami which says: "We examine with great care each individual case before removal and we
will not remove anyone who we believe is at risk on their return."
Moral of the story: Don't be born in Iran.
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