UNHCR, International Protection Considerations with Regard to People Fleeing the Republic of Iraq, May 2019
Subject: Religion
Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in H.A. and H.A. v. Norway, Application no 56167/16, 3 January 2017
EASO – European Asylum Support Office, ‘Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the EU 2017’, 2018
BBC News, ‘Meet Iran’s gay mullah forced to flee the country’, 8 June 2016 Abstract In Iran, homosexuality is banned and punishable by execution under its strict code of sharia, or Islamic law. In a country dominated by the religious class, being gay is taboo, and especially among the establishment. One Iranian gay cleric, who … Read more
Nina Held, SOGICA Table of German SOGI asylum case law 1988-2018, September 2018
Farrah Jafari, Silencing Sexuality: LGBT Refugees and the Public-Private Divide in Iran and Turkey, PhD dissertation (supervised by Anne Betteridge and Leila Hudson), The University of Arizona, 2013 Abstract The current Islamic Republic of Iran distinguishes between homosexuals and same-sex sexual activity: the former is not recognized as an identity, while state apparatuses openly condemn … Read more
The case concerns a transgender Malaysian national who claimed that her deportation from Denmark to Malaysia would violate her rights under Article 7 ICCPR (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment), in conjunction with articles 17(1) (privacy and family life), 18(1) (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 26 (non-discrimination). The Committee considered her claims admissible … Read more
The case is related to an asylum seeker from Tunisia who, despite the denial of the refugee status, was granted a humanitarian protection due to his sexual orientation and religion in accordance with the principle of non-refoulement.
Il caso riguarda un cittadino tunisino, ritenuto pericoloso per l’ordine pubblico, che non poteva essere comunque espulso dall’Italia in quanto omosessuale e cristiano. Pertanto, considerato il pericolo di refoulement, aveva diritto al permesso di soggiorno per motivi umanitari.
Decision of the Fifth Section of the ECtHR in the case of M.K.N. v. Sweden, Application no. 72413/10, 27 June 2013