Claim to international protection of a sapper from the Iranian army who in 1999 deserted rather than continue to lay anti-personnel mines in a populated part of Iranian Kurdistan where no state of war existed.
Held: On the facts of the case the claimant had met the standard required namely as to whether the point had come at which systematic and indiscriminate use by a state of lethal weapons against unarmed civilians amounted to a gross human rights abuse and an atrocity.
Judges:
Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Sedley and Lord Justice Wall
Citations:
[2008] EWCA Civ 540, Times 18-Jun-2008
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Immigration
Updated: 30 July 2022; Ref: scu.267917