No asylum for gay Iranian teen in UK?

Times:

A gay Iranian teenager faces deportation from Britain and execution in his home country after a Dutch court refused to hear his asylum claim.

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, will be forced to return to Britain, where his asylum application was rejected last year. He is then expected to be “removed” to Iran where his boyfriend was hanged two years ago for sodomy.

The ruling will put the Home Office under renewed pressure to reassess his case — or face the possibility of sending a young man to his death. The department’s own guidance concedes that Iran executes homosexuals but rejects the claim that there is a systematic repression of gay men and lesbians.

The Times uncovered Foreign and Commonwealth Office papers in November that showed that the British Government regularly challenges Iran about its gay hangings.

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Kazemi hasn't figured out the UK system. He should tell them that he fears being tortured if he returns, not executed. The threat of torture is usually enough to thwart any deportation order in the UK or Europe. He could also avoid deportation if he could get the Iranians to request his return so he could be tried for a crime with the death penalty. Even though it appears to be pretty clear what is waiting for him, the yourg man would have a better chance of staying if he were a terrorist.