IA004872020

             Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008 (SI 2008/2698) I make an anonymity order. Unless the Upper Tribunal or court directs otherwise, no report of these proceedings shall directly or indirectly identify the appellant. This direction applies to both the appellant and to the respondent and a failure to comply with this direction could lead to contempt of court proceedings.

             The appellant is a citizen of Sudan whom, it is now accepted, is a member of the non-Arab Moro/Murawe tribe.

             The appellant arrived in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2018 and claimed asylum. He claimed that he was at risk on return to Sudan because of his non-Arab ethnic background. He claimed that he had been arrested by the authorities and detained for seven days in prison before being released. After that, the appellant claims that he stayed in two refugee camps, which he referred to as the Arri Refugee Camp and the Yida Refugee Camp.

             On 3 August 2020, the Secretary of State refused the appellant's claims for asylum, humanitarian protection and under the ECHR. Whilst the Secretary of State accepted that the appellant was a victim of modern slavery, she did not accept that the appellant was a member of the non-Arab Moro/Murawi tribe or that he had been detained or lived in two refugee camps as he claimed. As a consequence, the Secretary of State did not accept that the appellant would be at risk of persecution or serious harm on return to Sudan.

             The appellant appealed to the First-tier Tribunal. In a determination dated 23 February 2021, Judge Mehta dismissed the appellant's appeal on all grounds. Whilst the judge accepted that the appellant was from Sudan and a member of the non-Arab Moro/Murawi tribe as he claimed, the judge rejected the appellant's account that he had been detained by the Sudanese authorities in prison or that he had lived on two occasions in refugee camps in Sudan.