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Iraqi LGBT need your help

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Please support Iraqi-LGBT

The immediate urgent priority is to Support and Donate Money to LGBT activists in Iraq in order to assist their efforts to communicate information about the wave of homophobic murders in Iraq to the outside world.

Funds raised will also help provide LGBTs under threat of honour killing with refuge in the safer parts of Iraq (including safe houses and food), and assist efforts help them seek asylum abroad. Donations to Iraqi LGBT are not tax-deductible for income tax purposes.



Still Human, still here - dedicated to highlighting the 
plight of tens of thousands of refused asylum seekers who are being 
forced into destitution in the UK if they do not agree to return 
voluntarily to their country

Support this campaign - dedicated to highlighting the plight of tens of thousands of refused asylum seekers who are being forced into destitution in the UK if they do not agree to return voluntarily to their country

Support the current campaigns of The Refugee Council.


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Gay Immigration Group

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photo from protest for Mehdi outside 
Downing Street
Answering government spin 

We are extremely cautious about the way in which we treat these cases
They have shown no evidence of caution. For a number of years they have consistently refused asylum to gays and lesbians and transgender people who would suffer persecution if returned, because that is their policy. Some of these people have committed suicide rather than be returned. There is a mass of evidence, including from the Foreign Office, that Iran and other countries like Jamaica and Uganda are a 'deathzone'.
We give detailed consideration to these cases
They do not consider the stated opinion of their own colleagues in the Foreign Office and never have. They misrepresent evidence of torture and systematic harassment by Human Rights Watch and other NGOs.
They go through a rigorous appeals and court process

There is a history of the Home Office accepting bland assurances from the Iranian and other governments. Further, there is a lot of evidence of homophobic attitudes within the Appeals Court process.
Obviously we have to follow and respect the integrity of that process

Not if it is biased. Not if the outcome is guaranteed because of their (unstated) policy. There is no integrity to this process for gays and lesbians.

* as restated in the Medhi Kazemi case in the House of Lords by a Home Office Minister, Lord West

He said:
"We are not aware of any individual having been executed solely on the grounds of homosexuality in Iran. We do not consider that there is systematic persecution of gay men in Iran."

This reflects the policy and actions of the previous Labour government - we wait to see if the new government will adopt different ones.

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