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Title	Australia: Follow-up to Response to Information Request AUS13520 regarding a request for a copy of a recent Australian decision which granted refugee status to a Chinese claimant on the basis of sexual orientation (homosexuality) in November 1992
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Australia \| China
Publication Date	1 March 1993
Citation / Document Symbol	AUS13794
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Australia: Follow-up to Response to Information Request AUS13520 regarding a request for a copy of a recent Australian decision which granted refugee status to a Chinese claimant on the basis of sexual orientation (homosexuality) in November 1992, 1 March 1993, AUS13794, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6ac5d38.html [accessed 14 February 2012]
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Australia: Follow-up to Response to Information Request AUS13520 regarding a request for a copy of a recent Australian decision which granted refugee status to a Chinese claimant on the basis of sexual orientation (homosexuality) in November 1992

A search conducted by the Embassy of Australia in Washington was unsuccessful in locating this parlicular decision within the required time frame. However, the embassy sent DIRB the attached facsimile of the response provided by the competent Australian authorities. This response indicates that in March 1992 two Chinese nationals seeking asylum in Australia on the grounds of their sexual orientation (homosexuality) were denied convention refugee status (Government of Australia 29 Mar. 1993). However, the two applicants were granted refugee 'sur place' status on the grounds that they might face retaliation for their political activities in Australia (Ibid.)

No further information on the above-mentioned topic is currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa.

Attachment

Australia's Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs. 29 March 1993. Facsimile of the response forwarded by the Embassy of Australia in Washington to the DIRB in Ottawa.

Topics: Sur place persecution, Refugees sur place,

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