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Action to defend Mehdi Kazemi March 22nd
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Wednesday March 12, 2008 18:32
by Middle East Workers' Solidarity
Action to defend Mehdi Kazemi March 22nd
On Saturday March 22nd at 2pm Middle East Workers' Solidarity will be staging a protest opposite Downing Street in defence of Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian asylum seeker who the British government plans to send back to Iran on the grounds that if gay Iranians are "discreet about their sexuality", they will not get in trouble.
In fact, Mehdi Kazemi's boyfriend in Iran has already been executed for being gay, and the regime knows about Mehdi Kazemi and will likely kill him if he returns. We are demonstrating to demand that he should not be sent to his death in Iran, and that he should be allowed to stay in Britain if he so chooses.
Saturday March 22nd, 2pm, Downing Street. Nearest tube Westminster/Charing Cross
http://www.union-solidarity.org/
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Jump To Comment: 1A report in the Independent on yet another case.
Pegah Emambakhsh,who fled to Britain after her girlfriend was arrested and sentenced to death faces being forcibly returned to Iran after losing the latest round in her battle to be granted asylum. Ms Emambakhsh came to the UK in 2005 fearing for her life after her partner had been arrested by Tehran police. Iranian gayrights 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.
http://www.union-solidarity.org/
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