Aliens — Asylum seekers — Determination of refugee status — Protection from well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion — Whether right to hold a political opinion encompassing right not to hold a political opinion — Political neutrality and imputed political opinion — Entitlement to refugee status for politically neutral asylum seekers — Whether any distinction within right to hold or not hold a political opinion — Whether asylum claim defeated by requirement that an asylum seeker forfeit a fundamental human right to avoid persecution

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Whether claimants having well-founded fear of persecution on ground stated in Refugee Convention — United Kingdom domestic law — Principle in HJ (Iran) — Applicability to claimants’ cases — The law of England