Germany’s asylum policy and Iran’s new apostasy law

Authors

  • Thomas Zimmermanns

Keywords:

Iran, draft apostasy law, asylum, deportation, legislation, policy, legal opinion

Abstract

This analysis deals in an exemplary way with the challenge of how to interpret information about religious persecution in countries of origin of refugees and asylum seekers within the legal framework of recipient countries.

Author Biography

Thomas Zimmermanns

Thomas Zimmermanns has studied law, worked as a lawyer and is currently active as an author in Cologne, Germany. His opinion piece is simultaneously published in German as ‘Die Verfolgungssituation von Christen im Iran und das neue Apostasie-Gesetz’ in: Glaube nur im Kämmerlein? edited by Friedemann Burkhardt and Thomas Schirrmacher, (Studien zur Religionsfreiheit 14), Bonn: VKW, 2009:48-55.

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Published

2023-01-11

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2009): Volume 2, Issue 1

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)