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Gay Iranian wins asylum in Spain (January 8, 10)
Source: El Mundo
By Pedro Simón
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days when TV images gave the bodies of those dead gay guys swinging the
rope, Ali covered her face with her pillow. Ali was a living dead man, 36
years and all the tickets to the gallows since that morning he looked into
the eyes of a man and left him in the mirror, like a curse, who he was: a
homosexual in Iran.
He was tortured by police, appointed by law, persecuted and imprisoned. He
fled the country as he could and threw his bones in Spain. Since Monday is
the first foreigner to achieve expressly asylum "persecution based on
sexual orientation," an ember that brings the new rule, and calling Ali
premieres mother only have the documentation, from a burger now shines
more than El Bulli .
- What did you say?
- That I have the papers. But what I can not tell me anything. ... It
would be terrible ... -. I lost my job, no money, I lost my partner-sets
beaming. But I'm very, very, very happy.
The phrase fits because Ali knows the future of a person who is gay and
lives in Iran, one of the nine countries of the world where they kill you
for being so. A dozen people, some of them gay-teen is waiting to be
executed by Tehran, the Nemat Safavi case to the head, a 16-year-old
accused of sodomy and who have made the collective banner of half the
world . Ali would be in the list. Narrowly escaped.
"I went with Firouz, my partner, to a birthday party. We were all
homosexuals. We got together in secret. Because he was the only way to
feel free and normal. Then the police pulled down the door and took us
all. We were insulted. To me they were tortured for a week. As we were,
shouting: 'Fags, the next day we will kill you "
At the crossroads, the couple took opposite paths. Ali left behind his job
in an office job and paid the mafia to the first destination as possible.
The place was Spain.
In December 2008, Iranian stepped Barajas airport seeking asylum and after
a month was welcomed by the Inn of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid
(CEAR) in Malaga. From what he has absorbed Ali Malaga this year without
wives. In Malaga dreams and hopes.
"He has made many friends and is very dear," says David Cedeño, provincial
president of colleagues, a collective dedicated to equality of
homosexuals. "He always says he was imprisoned a week, but that his prison
has lasted 36 years"
Bethlehem Amaro, Cear counsel, told him so when he applied for asylum Ali
"What makes his case exceptional, more serious than that of other refugees
is that he chose the cause of their persecution. Others may choose to a
thing or not, be Cristano, or adulterers, or be protesters against a
regime. But Ali did not choose to be homosexual. "
There will be much, but colleagues from Malaga has put a nail of gold this
Christmas with Ali and not everything that Allah the basket raffle will be
for him to fly away now that 27 December has left the nest. In Malaga
Malaga dreams and hopes. How will Firoux. |
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