Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:51:00 -0800 From: Ron Buckmire Subject: Iranian Refugee Case in SWEDEN ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 19:07:29 MET From: "Tobias Wikstr|m" Swedish Immigration Board has decided to deny residence permit for one Iranian gay man and one Algerian gay man. The two cases are now to be reviwed by the Aliens Appeals Board. We fear that the practice, laid down by the Aliens Appeals Board in 1994 not to deport gay men and lesbians to Iran, is threatened. Moreover, the Swedish Immigration Board (Statens Invandrarverk) has stated in its decision that the gay man should fear no persecution in Iran. The reason for this, according to the Swedish Immigration Board is that the Islamic Law states that there has to be four eye witnesses to the alleged crime (homosexuality). The Swedish Immigration Board thereby says that the Islamic Law will in fact PROTECT this gay man from persecution. Please protest to the Swedish Aliens Appeals Board. Write two different protest faxes for the respective cases. 1. Iran. Case no. 9502-0114. Up for appeal in Utlanningsnamnden (Aliens Appeals Board). Stress that the Islamic legislation stipulates death penalty for homosexuality! Protest against the formulation of the previous decision, made by Statens Invandrarverk (Swedish Immigration Board), mentioned above. 2. Algeria. Case no 9502-0015. The gay man appealing for asylum in Sweden is listed in the "death list" of the FIS (the Islamic Fundamentalist Movement). FIS is in favour of application of the Islamic law in Algeria. (And FIS also applies the law!) Address: Utlanningsnamnden P.O.Box 45 102 S-104 30 STOCKHOLM Sweden Fax +46-8-30 15 39 Send copies to RFSL P.O.Box 350 S-101 26 STOCKHOLM Fax +46-8-30 47 30 E-mail: rfsl@rfsl.se Yours in solidarity, Stig-Ake Petersson and Tobias Wikstrom -- Tobias Wikstrm RFSL, Box 350, S-101 26 Stockholm, Sweden Telephone +46-8-7360213 Telefax +46-8-304730 ****************************************************************************** To subscribe to the list, email MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu the one line message 'subscribe qi'. To unsubscribe to the list, email MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu with the one line message 'unsubscribe qi'. To send a message to the entire list "qi", email qi@abacus.oxy.edu *******************************************************************************