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Oct 18, 2006
Articles: GAY IRANIANS IN THE NETHERLANDS WIN ASYLUM
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By VZ
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The Netherlands’ conservative Immigration Minister RIta Verdonk (right), who earlier this year set off a firestorm of protest in the Dutch parliament when she announced she intended to resume deportations of gay Iranians, has executed a 180-degree turnaround, and decided to make gay & lesbian asylum seekers from Iran a 'special group' who will get asylum on humanitarian grouds because their position in Iranian society marks them as specifically vulnerable.
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