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EA (Azerbaijan male – Armenian ethnicity – risk) Azerbaijan CG [2007] UKAIT 00032
Date of hearing: 10 January 2007
Date Determination notified: 26 March 2007
EA |
APPELLANT |
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| Secretary of State for the Home Department | RESPONDENT |
An Azerbaijan male of Armenian ethnicity who has come to the attention of the authorities in Azerbaijan faces a real risk of persecution.
Russia
. With regard to the question of whether he was in St Petersburg for a month or two months, he said he could not remember exactly and they were in a very bad state and he had felt as though he had a noose around his neck. It was suggested to him that surely he would remember now when he was not in a situation of such tension and he said he could not remember whether it was a month or two months and at the time he had not even known what day it was. They had never left the house.
Reasoning and conclusions
The appellant's claim
The background evidence
Russia. As Mr Collins argued, he might reasonably be regarded as having taken that as the easiest way out given that his sister was there and would be able to fund him. The period of time that might have been taken to forward money to him is unclear, and at least in St Petersburg he would have the home of a relative to go to and the opportunity to raise the money directly, albeit except he must have apprehended an element of risk in going to a family member. It is however entirely unclear whether the authorities would have known that he had a sister in St Petersburg. Again this is not a matter which we consider to be adverse to the appellant.
Decision
The appeal is allowed on asylum grounds.
The appeal is allowed on human rights grounds (Article 3).
Signed Date
Senior Immigration Judge Allen
USSD Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Azerbaijan: 8 March 2006
Amnesty International Report 2006 : Azerbaijan: 23 May 2006
Freedom House, Freedom in the World: Azerbaijan: 6 September 2006
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 'Human Rights Annual Report 2006 : Azerbaijan', 12 October 2006
UK Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate: 'Operational Guidance Note: Azerbaijan', 4 December 2006.