Britain deports Iranian lesbian facing execution

Wokamuka · 03-11-2008, 09:21 PM

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Now Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain faces deportation - Home News, UK - Independent.co.uk
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Friday, 7 March 2008

An Iranian lesbian who fled to Britain after her girlfriend was arrested and sentenced to death faces being forcibly returned after losing the latest round in her battle to be granted asylum.

The case of Pegah Emambakhsh, 40, comes a day after The Independent reported on the growing public outcry over the plight of a gay Iranian teenager who fears he will be executed if he is deported to Iran.

Both cases have provoked international protests against Britain and led to calls for an immediate moratorium on the deportation of gay and lesbian asylum-seekers who fear they will be persecuted in Iran.

More than 60 MEPs have signed a petition asking Gordon Brown to reverse the decision on Mehdi Kazemi, 19, who escaped to the Netherlands after the Home Office refused him asylum last year. His case is still before Dutch judges who will decide this month whether he should return to Britain where he faces deportation to a country which has already executed his boyfriend.

Gay rights group claim there are dozens more cases of gay and lesbian asylum-seekers living in Britain in fear of persecution and facing harsh punishments if forced to return to Iran.

Ms Emambakhsh came to the UK in 2005 fearing for her life after her partner had been arrested by Tehran police. Iranian gay rights groups have reported that that partner is in custody under sentence of death by stoning. Speaking through her asylum representative in Sheffield yesterday, Ms Emambakhsh said: "I will never, never go back. If I do I know I will die."

Under the Iranian Islamic Punishment Act, lesbians found guilty of sexual relations can be sentenced to 100 lashes. But, for a third offence, the punishment is execution.

Ms Emambakhsh narrowly avoided deportation in August last year but only after her local MP, Richard Caborn, and other parliamentarians persuaded the Government to allow her to stay while further legal avenues of appeal were explored. She says she was already on the way to Heathrow when she learnt of her last-minute reprieve. But last month the Court of Appeal turned down her application for permission for a full hearing. Ms Emambakhsh said yesterday that she was "very disappointed" by the ruling but planned to apply for a judicialreview at the High Court. The Home Office has also agreed to consider fresh legal representations on her behalf.

The Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Ludford has written to the Home Secretary to request her urgently to review the case of Mehdi Kazemi. Lady Ludford, the party's European justice spokesperson and a member of the European Parliament's Gay and Lesbian Rights Intergroup, said: "Jacqui Smith must recognise and act on the real threat of persecution and even execution which Mr Kazemi would face if he was to be deported to Iran."

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2004 but later discovered that his boyfriend had been arrested by the Iranian police, charged with sodomy and hanged.

In a phone conversation with his father in Tehran, Mr Kazemi was told that, before the execution in April 2006, his boyfriend had been questioned about sexual relations he had with other men and under interrogation had named Mr Kazemi. Fearing for his own life if he returned to Iran, Mr Kazemi claimed asylum in Britain. Late last year, his claim was refused. Terror-stricken at the prospect of being deported, he made a desperate attempt to evade deportation by fleeing to the Netherlands where he is being detained amid a growing outcry from campaigners.

In turning down Ms Emambakhsh and Mr Kazemi's asylum applications, the Home Office has said that, provided Iranians are discreet about their homosexuality, they will not be persecuted. But Omar Kuddus, of Gay Asylum UK, demanded that Britain follow the example of the Netherlands and Germany in imposing a moratorium on all deportations involving gay and lesbian Iranians. He asked: "How many more young Iranians have to die before the British Government takes action?"

The chief executive of the Border and Immigration Agency, Lin Homer, said: "Our country guidance for such cases is published and is considered as amongst the best in the world. We have expert case workers who make decisions on such cases and there are further avenues through the courts. When and if a court decides that we should look at a case again we will do that."

I guess that if the British didn't act so British in the second world war, Germany wouldn't have attacked them. How about 'em jews . . . if they didn't act so jewish, they wouldn't have been executed. What an inane reasoning.

PuyoPiyo · 03-12-2008, 03:33 AM

I felt sorry about those people who are stuck in a such of country...

Liebling:-))) · 03-12-2008, 06:11 AM

Very, very sad...

*shake my head quietly sadly*)

Pacman · 03-12-2008, 07:06 PM

Oh, that's very sad for homosexual people who got executed in Iran and other muslim countries, even struck in their country too.

Execution by stoning is so scary, I had seen on video and make me feel so sad, same goes to hanging too and couple of gay men got hanged up on public area for sodomy in Iran, it was happened in 2005. Iran need to be invaded so badly, too much abuse on human rights.

shel90 · 03-12-2008, 07:16 PM

That is terrible! Obviously human rights are not practiced there at all!

dreama · 03-13-2008, 02:19 PM

How terrible!!!

I can't understand how the british goverment can send people like that back.

Lil_country_gal · 03-13-2008, 04:36 PM

That makes me so sick! Is no one allowing these people safetly?

Aleser · 03-13-2008, 07:04 PM

Things like this make me sad-

First, Britain even CONSIDERING deporting someone who will surely be abused and or killed... under the excuse that if they had been 'private' about it, this wouldn't have happened... hey, folks. The milk has been skilled, the men and women have already been exposed.. they can't turn back time.

Iran.. too, is in the wrong. I cannot understand such a poor reason as the human being another human being makes the choice to love... as an excuse to kill them. I don't believe in the government playing G-d. If you think that homosexuality is evil or a sin, can you not rest knowing that G-d will judge their life? Who on earth are -you-, believers in that same G-d, to try and act on His behalf? It makes no sense.

Texan Guy · 03-13-2008, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Pacman

Oh, that's very sad for homosexual people who got executed in Iran and other muslim countries, even struck in their country too.

Execution by stoning is so scary, I had seen on video and make me feel so sad, same goes to hanging too and couple of gay men got hanged up on public area for sodomy in Iran, it was happened in 2005. Iran need to be invaded so badly, too much abuse on human rights.

Oh, yeah? What about China and Sudan? Christ, do we need to invade them because they abuse on human rights too much?

Sorry for the

.

As for this thread, well, no comment.

Pacman · 03-13-2008, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Texan Guy

Oh, yeah? What about China and Sudan? Christ, do we need to invade them because they abuse on human rights too much?

Sorry for the

.

As for this thread, well, no comment.

I don't mention about USA should invade Iran, I means that I just wish about Iran should be invaded by other countries or more than just USA alone.

China? that's too powerful for us, Iran is alot worse than China.

Sorry for off-topic again

Texan Guy · 03-13-2008, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Pacman

I don't mention about USA should invade Iran, I means that I just wish about Iran should be invaded by other countries or more than just USA alone.

China? that's too powerful for us, Iran is alot worse than China.

Sorry for off-topic again

I meant the "we" are United Nations. Are the United States of America member of the United Nations, correct?

Well, I believe Sudan is alot worse than Iran. And Sudan has the United Nation peacekeeper troops and still having problems.

Sorry for the

, and that's the end of it. Pacman, got any comments or questions? PM me or not.

PuyoPiyo · 03-14-2008, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Texan Guy

Oh, yeah? What about China and Sudan? Christ, do we need to invade them because they abuse on human rights too much?

Sorry for the

.

As for this thread, well, no comment.

*bringing this to the point of this thread*

It does not matter which countries that are worst, or whatever, the only matter is that it is very wrong for governments to kill people just on their base of status, like racist, sexism, etc.

dreama · 03-14-2008, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Aleser

If you think that homosexuality is evil or a sin, can you not rest knowing that G-d will judge their life? Who on earth are -you-, believers in that same G-d, to try and act on His behalf? It makes no sense.

I wish that all Muslims thought this way.

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