イラン人ゲイ、メフディ・カゼミさんの保護を求めるオランダ外務省への嘆願メールの一例

Title: Please save Mehdi Kazemi, a Iranian gay seeking asylum

Division of Aliens, Visas the Movement of Persons, Migration and Alien Affairs Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Sir
Please don't send Mehdi Kazemi, 19-year-old Iranian gay male who has failed to seek asylum in UK and fled to the Netherlands, back to UK again.

Mehdi Kazemi, born in 1988 in Tehran, the capital of Iran, was sent to UK for study by his father in 2005, at age 17. Mehdi is a gay and had same sex relationship with his high school classmate in Tehran. In early 2006, he was informed by his father in Tehran that his same sex partner was arrested and excuted for his sexuality, and that Mehdi's father was contacted by the authorities of Iran about Mehdi's information.

There was no way for Mehdi except seeking asylum in UK. But the Home Office of UK rejected his aplication for asylum and he was forced to leave UK and flee to the Netherlands.

It is so regrettable that the authorities of the Netherlands, that is so respected by all over the world for her tolerance toward the deversity and protection of human rights, decided to deport Mehdi Kazemi back to UK, where he will face the serious danger of deportation to Iran.

Please stop his deportation to UK, examine his application for asylum and accept him as a legal refugee in your country.

The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, adopted by a group of 29 experts on international human rights law in 2006, ensures “THE RIGHT TO SEEK YLUM”(PRINCIPLE 23.) and calls upon states to “ensure that no person is removed, expelled or extradited to any State where that person may face a well-founded fear of torture, persecution, or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, on the basis of that person’s sexual orientation or gender identity”(Principle 23[c]).

In 7th November 2007, when the conference of the launch of Yogyakarta Principles was held in UN headquarters in New Your City, the President of the EU Parliament also sent a letter of support to this conference.

I heartily wish that the Netherlands play her leading role to protect human rights in the world.

Sincerely.