[imc-sheffield] [FEAT] Don't Deport Pegah Emambakhsh

[Chris]

Hi

Following is a proposed feature for the UK, Sheffield,
Migration, Gender and Repression topics. There is a HTML
version of the article here:

  https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkFeaturePegah

Plain text version:

   Don't Deport Pegah Emambakhsh

   An international campaign to prevent the UK government
   deporting Pegah Emambakhsh to Iran, where she faces
   possible lashings or being stoned to death, for being a
   lesbian, has succeeded in getting a delay until Tuesday
   28 August 2007.

   Pegah sought asylum in the UK in 2005, her claim failed
   despite appeals, and she was arrested in Sheffield on
   Monday 13th August and is being detained in Yarlswood
   detention centre.

   Her case has been taken up by the Iranian Queer
   Organization, who has said: "If she is going to be
   returned to Iran, there is much of possibility that
   she, due to her sexual orientation and her past life in
   Iran, will be sentenced to death, or, in a most
   optimistic view, be prosecuted and tortured in some of
   the ways that are all common among Iran's religious
   officials when having made the decision to chastise the
   so called 'corrupted' citizens.".

   The anti-deportation campaign, which has included
   approaches to the British ambassador in Rome and the
   Deputy Consul General in San Francisco has resulted in
   her case getting coverage in the gay press and the
   Iranian media [ 1 | 2 ].

   Articles: Pegah Emambakhsh Must Stay | British
   Ambassador promises: "We will not deport Pegah
   Emambakhsh" | Who wants Pegah’s Blood? | Urgent! - Save
   Pegah From Death. Don't Alow That Pegah Goes Up On The
   Airplane | Lesbian facing Deportation to Iran needs
   your Support | URGENT: Don't Deport Pegah Emambakhsh 

Chris

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