Saturday, 30. June 2012
Topic: NEWS english - on June 30, 2012 at 9:38:00 AM CEST
'Go home and lie', court tells lesbian Iranian
A German court told a lesbian who had fled persecution in Iran, to go back and simply live discreetly and hide her sexuality. Iranian courts sentence lesbians to whippings and, in a fourth instance, death.
Samira Ghorbani Danesh fled Iran in 2009 and has been living in a women's shelter in northern Bavaria since.
She now has until the end of July to leave, Die Welt newspaper said on Thursday as the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees refused the 24-year-old asylum
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