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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Britain Denies Asylum to Iranian Gays

By Ed Brayton

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The mind boggles at this story. The UK is trying to deport an Iranian lesbian who fled there after her partner was arrested and rightly fears for her life if she returns to Iran:

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.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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