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R v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Zia Mehmet Binbasi
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2021
Abstract
Aliens — Deportation — Asylum — Criteria for grant of — Nature of “well-founded fear of persecution” — Homosexual acts subject to criminal penalties in State of nationality — Whether amounting to persecution — United Nations Handbook on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status — As instrument of interpretation of refugee law — Whether homosexuals a social group within meaning of Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees, 1951
Treaties — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Article 8 — Aliens — Deportation — State of nationality allegedly in breach of obligations under European Convention on Human Rights — Whether State Party to European Convention precluded from deporting alien to State of nationality — The law of England
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