Asylum seeker allowed to remain within the UK after having ‘shameful’ affair | UK | News | EUROtoday

Asylum seeker allowed to remain within the UK after having ‘shameful’ affair | UK | News
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An asylum seeker has been granted permission to remain within the UK after claiming he was susceptible to an “honour killing” if he went again to his residence nation after having an affair. The unnamed 32-year-old Iraqi claimed the disgrace of his relationship with a girl outdoors of his marriage would forestall him getting a brand new ID card.

The ID is accepted by governmental and non-governmental businesses to show the id of its proprietor and determine their Iraqi citizenship. Iraq residents should have their id registered and maintain a Civil standing id card or a Unified National Card id card. This card have to be utilized for and issued in individual in Iraq.

However, the asylum seeker claimed he was unable to get anybody in Iraq to supply him with the ID card that he would require upon returning again to his residence nation. On these phrases the decrease immigration tribunal allowed him the correct to remain.

Previous tribunals have recognised that Iraqis with out IDs are susceptible to persecution and violence in the event that they try and return and cross by way of checkpoints to get residence.

However, legal professionals from the Home Office appealed the choice to grant him refugee safety, arguing that the decide had made an error in regulation, in accordance with The Telegraph.

They pointed to official steerage which decreed {that a} risk of honour killing towards a person was not adequate cause to grant asylum.

However, the Home Office’s attraction was rejected by an higher tribunal who backed the person’s declare for refugee safety, permitting him to stay within the UK.

It was claimed that returning the 32-year-old to his residence nation could be a possible breach of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which protects towards persecution.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2062212/asylum-seeker-allowed-stay-uk-affair