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Friday, July 18
How can a gay HIV positive man deported from the United States in January end up in the Netherlands with the equivalent of their “green card” in less than 6 months? The answer is that the Dutch have a fair,...
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Wednesday, May 21
Source: CNN , The Independent , BBC News , UK Gay News LONDON -- After a year-long battle, Britain has granted asylum to Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who faced deportation from the United Kingdom and feared execution in Iran for being homosexual, officials confirmed Tuesday. "We keep cases...
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Monday, May 12
Source: Scotland on Sunday Glasgow, Scotland -- A gay asylum seeker who fears torture and death if he is deported to Syria, where homosexuality is illegal, is waiting to hear if this week's appeal for leave to stay in Scotland will be granted. At a tribunal that met to consider his case Tuesday,...
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Wednesday, March 26
Source: Guardian's 'Comment is free' by Peter Tatchell [Peter Tatchell is a human rights campaigner, and a member of the queer rights group OutRage! and the left wing of the Green party. He is the Green Party's parliamentary candidate for Oxford East.] George Galloway, the Leftwing member...
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Monday, March 24
Source: UK Gay News , UK Gay News , Guardian The British Government is currently failing gay refugees, Peter Tatchell told a rally in Whitehall, outside the Prime Minister’s official residence 10 Downing Street. Over 120 protesters braved hail and rain on Saturday to demand that gay Iranian asylum seeker...
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Saturday, March 22
Source: Scotland on Sunday , GayNZ POLITICAL pressure is mounting on the UK Government to reverse its decision to deport a gay Syrian teenager from Scotland to his homeland, where he faces almost certain imprisonment and torture. The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported last week that 19-year-old Jojo...
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Saturday, March 15
Source: Independent , Radio Netherlands , CNN International , Washington Post A gay teenager spared an immediate return to Iran, where he claims he faces the death penalty, said yesterday that he will only feel safe if the Home Secretary personally guarantees his right to remain in Britain. As his case...
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Thursday, March 13
Source: Times (London) , ABC News , BBC News , The Independent Mehdi Kazemi, the gay Iranian teenager facing deportation from Britain and execution in his home country, has been handed a temporary reprieve. The UK rejected his first asylum plea, but Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, has now granted him...
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Tuesday, March 11
Source: Times (London) , PinkNews A gay teenager who faces being hanged if sent back to Iran is a step closer to being forced to return today, after the Netherlands followed Britain in refusing his appeal for asylum. In response, a gay member of the House of Lords has demanded the government take action...
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Friday, March 07
Source: Press Association , Independent , Associated Press A gay teenager who sought sanctuary in Britain when his boyfriend was executed in Iran is battling authorities who want to return him to his home country. Mehdi Kazemi, 19, came to London to study English in 2005 but later discovered that his...
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