Australia denies asylum by Ukranian Jehovah's Witnesses

by DevonMcBride 1 Replies latest jw friends

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  DevonMcBride

  http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/04/22/031.html

  Scroll down a bit and you will see

  Jehovah's Witness Case

  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's highest court on Wednesday rejected an asylum bid by a Ukrainian couple who said they faced persecution because the husband was a Jehovah's Witness.

  The High Court was told the couple, who cannot be identified, arrived in Australia in 1998 and sought refugee status on the grounds that the Ukrainian government encouraged persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, and that police condoned such violence.

  The court heard how the husband, but not his wife, became involved with the Jehovah's Witnesses in the Ukraine in May 1998 and started distributing the organization's publications.

  He told the court he'd encountered hostility and was beaten twice.
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  Aikon

  Hi

  This is not true. Jehovahs Witnesses are NOT persecuted in Ukraine, this asylum application is a ruse to gain status in Australia.

  The same situation is happening in Briatian. Asylum seekers are coming here from Eastern Europe claiming that they are persecuted in their own countries, because they are JW, but this is not true.

  They are infact Economic immigrants seeking a better way of life in the west.