You have to consider all the GLBT Iranians who have fled their homeland only to face deportation.
One such case is a 40-year old lesbian named Pegah Emambakhsh, who, like 19-year old gay student Mehdi Kazemi, also faces the death penalty if she return to Iran. There are many like these two. And sadly, some of them have been deported, where it’d only be predictable what happened thereafter, as the crime for homosexuality in Iran is death.
In Pegah’s case, she, like Mehdi, is staying in Britain at this time, awaiting deportation. Recently her appeal for asylum was rebuffed by the Court of Appeals, so now Pegah is now taking her case to the High Court, which may have the final say in whether or not she will live or die.
As for Mehdi, he was given a brief stay of deportation, as his case is being reviewed.
Whatever the decisions are on both publicized cases, one thing is for sure: The people in charge of making the ultimate descisions in the cases of both Mehdi and Pegah, as well as in other cases, must take a good long look at themselves in the mirrow before deciding whether or not to have these innocent people shipped back to Iran to be welcomed with a noose put on their necks. Because they are just as human as we are, I don’t care what your sexual orientation is, and we need to respect that.
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