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Stop the Deportation of 'Tara Aryan'

thewallmustfall | 15.06.2008 08:32 | Migration | South Coast

Tara Aryan is an Iranian refugee to the UK who converted to Christianity last year. The home office is trying to deport her to Iran. If they are sucessful she could face imprisonment or death for 'abandoning Islam'.

Tara has lived in Brighton for two years before being detained at Yarl's Wood Removal Centre. She was scheduled to be deported on Friday 13th June on a BMI flight from Heathrow. She was transferred to the airport but the removal was deferred after a judicial review was lodged by her solicitor. Tara is now detained again at Yarl's Wood.

Resources: Online Petition to grant Tara asylum

Links: Brighton Voices in Exile - See this site for updates on Tara's case

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Tara was baptised last year at a church in Brighton. This means that under Iranian law she could face imprisonment or death for abandoning Islam and converting to Christianity.

Tara entered the UK in 2006 and made an asylum claim but was refused. She tried to make a fresh claim but the Home Office refused to consider it.

Although the immediate risk of deportation has passed pending the results of Tara's Judicial Review she is still at risk if the hearing does not go well. Updates on Tara's case will be posted on www.brightonvoicesinexile.org

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Free Speech Penalty

19.06.2008 08:11

Some years ago in London I was accosted by a Christian man asking for a signature on a petition protesting that his wife had been hanged in Tehran for converting to Christianity. Close questioning brought out that she had been prostletysing her Christian ideas to Moslems. So it may not have been just her own conversion she was hanged for.

In the interest of free speech, I signed his petition, but did not give any money for campaigning as it was likely to be used furthering Christian propaganda.

Whenever I see a woman in the UK with all her hair covered, I think of that woman hanging in Tehran, and well as those buried up to their necks and stoned to death for what would be normal behaviour in this country.

Ilyan