Thread by @AlasdairMack66

Because you just can’t have too many farcical Home Office asylum refusals

https://twitter.com/psychicyogamat/status/1415307811492409344

Another personal favourite is the Bosnian Croat journalist who received death threats while working in Sarajevo, and was refused asylum by the Home Office because “none of these threats were carried out”

Another client from Ethiopia was told that “those currently detained in Ethiopia are kept in comfortable cells”

“You were not arrested alone but with the whole Executive Committee of the Student Union” was another surprising reason for someone to be refused asylum

A client of mine was told that written statements from current and former same-sex partners “do not demonstrate that you are homosexual”

A former British army interpreter in Afghanistan was refused asylum because he couldn’t be “100% certain” that the people who came round to his house to threaten him were from the Taliban

Just going to add this one to the thread, which I can see is simmering away nicely

https://twitter.com/JamieB2712/status/1415597620916105220?s=20

A Tamil client of mine was beaten over the head, stabbed and burned with cigarettes before being left for dead by Sri Lankan soldiers. He was refused asylum because (among other reasons) he hadn’t explained why the soldiers hadn’t just shot him

Same client was also told his numerous severe & painful injuries could have been “inflicted for the purpose of simulating wounds”, ie that he had basically tortured himself in order to claim asylum

Two other Tamils (brother and sister) were accepted to have been multiply tortured and raped in custody but were refused asylum bc they had “not been of particular interest to the [Sri Lankan] authorities”

Just remembered the one where my 16-year-old client’s claim to have been a member of a secret Christian church in Vietnam was disbelieved bc he didn’t know how many ”chapters” there are in the bible & couldn’t explain the difference btw Catholicism & Pentecostalism