Application for extension of time in which to renew application for permission to appeal following refusal on the papers. Appeal from AIT on a reconsideration dismissing the two applicants’ (NK and BK) appeals from the Secretary of State’s rejection of their claims for asylum and related humanitarian and Human Rights Act Relief. The applicants are brother and sister, now aged 23 and 21, and citizens of Ethiopia, who arrived and were admitted to the United Kingdom as tourists on passports in their own names on 17 July 2005. Six weeks later they claimed asylum on the basis that they were members of an organisation called the African Initiatives for a Democratic World Order (‘AIDWO’), on whose behalf they had monitored the general election in Ethiopia on 15 May 2005, following which they had been arrested. They feared persecution if returned to Ethiopia because of their involvement with AIDWO and the fact that they had reported irregularities in the election and, as such, they would be arrested and persecuted for what they had said.
Judges:
Tuckey LJ
Citations:
[2008] EWCA Civ 528
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Immigration
Updated: 15 July 2022; Ref: scu.267907