The hope that AH, a young Egyptian who arrived at the Loiu airport (Bizkaia) hidden in the hold of a plane, had of achieving asylum in Spain has lasted only 12 days. The 25-year-old stowaway traveled at 30 degrees below zero from Cairo to Bilbao on October 23 and, after being detained by the Police, asked the Spanish Government for international protection because he feared for his life in his country. . “My life is in danger and I fear for her. “I have received death threats,” he declared at the border to the agents guarding him. The Ministry of the Interior denied him the asylum that he requested for “religious reasons” and neither the appeal presented subsequently nor the very precautionary measures that he proposed to the National Court to avoid his deportation have been successful.
The young Egyptian was finally deported this Friday on a plane that left Bilbao and will take him to Cairo after stopping in Madrid. “He is desperate for what could happen to him in his country,” says the lawyer who has assisted him, Javier Galparsoro, president of the NGO Zehar Errefuxiatuekinwho has already lost the communication he maintained with this person through the mobile phone.
Galparsoro regrets the “lack of sensitivity” of the Spanish authorities with this case, which he assures is the “most special” that he has had to process in his 44 years of experience with migrants and refugees. The lawyer explains that he AH requested to enter Spain because in his country “death awaited him.”
The young Egyptian suffered sexual abuse at the age of 10 by the imam of his mosque, which led him to apostatize from Islam, says Galparsoso. In his letter to the Asylum and Refuge Office, he argued that he grew up in a Muslim family, but decided to abandon this religion after suffering episodes in the mosque to which his mother forced him to go. The applicant explained: “In Egypt, if you abandon your religion, it is better for your family if you are dead and Islam allows you to kill someone who renounces said religion.”
Zehar’s lawyer fears for the future of his client these days: “He told me that he is homosexual. His fear was that if he is returned to Egypt he could be imprisoned and tortured.” After confirming his return to Egypt, Galparsoro regrets the final outcome: “When the life, security, freedom, dignity of a human being is at stake, we must not make a mistake.”
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