Gay Syrian teenager faces deportation

In a case with close parallels to that of Mehdi Kazemi, a Syrian teenager is being threatened with deportation back to his homeland, where gay people are persecuted. The Syrian Embassy has described homosexuality as a "disease", which the country wants to "treat".

His only crime was to be gay. For that he was half-drowned, brutally beaten and then fell into a coma. He survived, escaped from jail, fled his country and eventually arrived, exhausted and bedraggled, here in Scotland. And now the Government wants to send him back.

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