Tortured Iranians who fail UK asylum bids face deportation

‘Iranian victims of torture who have fled to the UK face being deported if the British government succeeds in negotiations with Tehran over failed asylum claims.

The risk stems from this summer’s thaw in relations between Iran and the West as part of the nuclear deal and the slackening of economic sanctions imposed on the theocratic state.

It could mean that hundreds of people who have fled to the UK since Iran’s 2009 crackdown on the anti-government Green Movement are forcibly repatriated despite many of them having been imprisoned and tortured by the regime.’

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