Iranian immigrant fined for pelting UK Home Office with 90 eggs after failed asylum bid

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Published time: 11 May, 2016 13:02
Edited time: 11 May, 2016 13:04

A London court has ordered an Iranian immigrant to pay a fine for throwing 90 eggs at the Home Office in London in protest at the government’s refusal to grant him asylum.

Feridon Rostami, 32, yelled “f***ing criminals” as he pelted the Westminster office with £7.29 worth of eggs bought at a liquor store in west London.

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The self-described “radical atheist,” who came to the UK in 2005, claimed he had a right to protest the government’s decision and that he believed the rain would eventually wash away the mess.

Rostami’s lawyer, Kathleen Mulhern, said: “He’s a man who feels highly aggrieved by his history at the Home Office, his choice of protest he believes was perfectly right in order to highlight his grievances.”

https://www.rt.com/uk/342627-eggs-home-office-immigrant/

[LeftishBrit]

1. The Home Office deserved that egging.

A radical atheist would definitely be at risk in Iran.

Our Home Secretary, Theresa May, is mean-spirited, and as thick as two short planks.

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2. I don't know what a radical atheist is. Nevertheless, all sorts of dissidents are at risk in Iran.

In this case, it looks like his original claim was for political asylum not "religious" asylum.''

Rostami came to the UK illegally in 2005 claiming that his father, a member of the Kurdish Democratic Party, was killed in 1991. He also claimed his mother and sisters were subjected to prosecution at the hands of the Iranian regime, and that he was at risk of torture and murder upon return to his home country.

This,

“If I go to Iran I will be tortured then murdered, I'm a radical atheist, I'm an advocate of atheism, a student of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens as well.”

strikes me as a latter-day claim, and one not artfully stated.