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BE (Iran) (Appellant) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)
In the Supreme Court of Judicature, Court of Appeal (Civil Division), On Appeal From The Asylum And Immigration Tribunal, CC/03113/2002
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Neutral Citation Number: [2008] EWCA Civ 540
Case No: C5/2007/1310
Date: 20/05/2008
Before: Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Sedley and Lord Justice Wall, Miss F Webber (instructed by Newcastle Law Centre) for the Appellant, Mr T Eicke (instructed by The Treasury Solicitors) for the Respondent
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Lord Justice Sedley:
This is the judgment of the court.
- 1. Although this is the third occasion on which the present case has reached this court, it is a case of some importance and there are good reasons for its return here. It concerns the 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.
The facts
- 2. The appellant, who was born in 1970, carried out his two years’ military service and then in 1988 joined up as a regular soldier. In 1998 he
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