“Reconsidering.”

By Andrew Belonsky March 13, 2008 at 4:03pm

Britain’s Interior Minister Jacqui Smith says she and her colleagues are “reconsidering” gay Iranian Mehdi Kazemi’s asylum plea. [POQ]

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Bill Perdue

They’re ‘reconsidering’ because of the massive global outpouring of support for Medhi and disgusted condemnation of the Brit’s policy of deporting gays and lesbians to certain torture and death.

March 13, 2008 at 7:03pm

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