MEHDI KAZEMI

Mehdi Kazemi – I’ve written a load about him on my other blog.
The UK government claims, and I quote from the Border and Immigration Agency:-

“To be recognised as a refugee, you must have left your country and be unable to go back because you have a well-founded fear of persecution.”
“The United Kingdom also adheres to the European Convention on Human Rights, which prevents us sending someone to a country where there is a real risk they will be exposed to torture, or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

Mehdi came here to study, (his uncle lives here), and had every intention of returning, (his boyfriend was back home – why would he not want to return?). During his stay the Iranian authorities arrested his partner, and finally executed him for being a homosexual, although only after he had revealed the name of his partner.

Now, I may be dumb, or stupid; but surely that places Mehdi in a position of being at real risk of “degrading treatment” as they call it above. The UK government is NOT adhering to the European Convention on Human Rights – in fact, they are flouting it. He does have a “well-founded fear of persecution”.
And yet, they make other claims that there is no hard evidence of homosexual men being executed, How about this?

These were two gay teenagers placed on the back of a lorry - the lorry drove off, leaving them to suffocate slowly while the crowds looked on.

For your, ( and the Home Office’s), information, the Iranian powers-that-be do not use the long drop method of hanging. They use a short drop, and that means the victim does not die instantly – he or she suffocates slowly. That’s exactly what the sick people in authority want. All done in the name of religion.

The British officials are also reported as having said gays are safe as long as they are discrete. That is a load of bullshit, because even if he does deny his homosexuality and live a “discrete” life, Mehdi is marked purely because of his partner having named him prior to being executed. And why should he lead a life in the shadows purely because he was born gay?

They also misunderstand Iranian claims by the judiciary that the number of public hangings will be reduced - any idiot can see the Iranian authorities will hang them in prison beyond the eyes of the world.
He, I, we, did not choose to be gay – we were born that way, and it will be a terrible black mark on Britain’s reputation if the Dutch do deport him back here only for the UK government to deport him back to Iran.
I was accused by one Euro MP of wanting to bring all gay Iranians into Britain. I never asked any such thing; but I do ask for some compassion to be shown to this one young man who commits no crime in loving another man – who has done no wrong, except fall foul of a brutal, lying, totalitarian Muslim regime.