Iranian Asylum Seeker on Hunger Strike

By Sarah Cosgrove

The Times – A DESPERATE refugee has been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks because she is terrified of being tortured and killed if she is forced to return to Iran.

Bita Ghaedi, of High Road, Whetstone, was refused asylum by the British Government and told she would be deported within a fortnight.

But the 34-year-old, who said she has endured two decades of beatings and mental torture at the hands of her family and her former lover, claims there is no doubt she will be hunted down and killed by her father, brother and uncle should she return.

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