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Iranian Christian couple's fight for asylum threatened with death after conversion

2022-11-29T17:10:06.965Z


STORY – Denying Islam is a crime of apostasy in Iran, but the couple have been refused four asylum applications in France on the grounds that the sincerity of their choice cannot be proven.


In the 55m2 lent by the reception center for asylum seekers, Ata Fathimaharloei, 36, and his wife Somayeh Hajifoghaha, 37, are not too badly settled.

Despite the bedbugs, they have a fridge, a washing machine and have a bedroom for the two children, Moein and Daniel.

The horizon would be almost serene if they had not just received, in mid-November, a new refusal of the right of asylum.

The fourth in five years.

Ata acknowledges the blow.

I must admit that this time is very hard.

I thought that with the current situation in Iran (

waves of demonstrations against the ayatollahs' regime

, editor's note), there was hope

”.

Arrived in the Pyrénées-Orientales in 2018, the couple fled Iran after authorities discovered that Ata was attending a Christian church.

On the document produced by an Iranian law firm, certified and translated from Persian, we can read: “

According to the Iranian Constitution and Islamic law, any Iranian having a father and…

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Source: lefigaro

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