Adjudication of asylum claims (refugee status determination / asylum procedures) / Social group persecution

Dates of hearing: 9 August 2004 & 15 February 2005.

8 July 2005 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Social group persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Heard at Field House: on 30 November 2004; Date determination notified: 9 March 2005.

9 March 2005 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Social group persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Asylum - Particular social group - Family - Fear of persecution by Iranian authorities following detention of her husband for non-convention reasons - Whether persecution as member of particular social group (husband's family)

28 July 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Freedom of expression - Freedom of speech - Persecution based on political opinion - Social group persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Appeal against the decision of a refugee status officer given on 9 May 2003 declining the grant of refugee status to the appellant, a twenty-five-year-old citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

7 July 2004 | Judicial Body: New Zealand: Refugee Status Appeals Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) - Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity - Social group persecution - Well-founded fear of persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - New Zealand

On appeal from the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.

29 January 2004 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Court of Appeal (England and Wales) | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Appeal / Right to appeal - Complementary forms of protection - Social group persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

9 December 2003 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Persecution based on political opinion - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Social group persecution | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Application for judicial review.

30 October 2003 | Judicial Body: Canada: Federal Court | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Christian - Deportation / Forcible return - Domestic violence - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Non-state agents of persecution - Prosecution vs persecution - Religious persecution (including forced conversion) - Social group persecution - Sur place persecution | Countries: Canada - Iran, Islamic Republic of

6 June 2003 | Judicial Body: United Kingdom: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal / Immigration Appellate Authority | Document type: Case Law | Topic(s): Country of origin information (COI) - Domestic violence - Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment - Gender discrimination - Social group persecution - Women-at-risk | Countries: Iran, Islamic Republic of - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland