UI2024001456

Pursuant to rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, the appellant) is granted anonymity. No-one shall publish or reveal any information, including the name or address of the appellant, likely to lead members of the public to identify the appellant. Failure to comply with this order could amount to a contempt of court.

             This is an appeal by the appellant against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal Judge (the 'Judge'), promulgated on 9 th February 2024, in which she dismissed the appellant's appeal against the respondent's decision to refuse his protection and human rights claim. The appellant is a national of Iran of Kurdish ethnicity who claimed protection of the basis of his political opinion and his ethnicity.

             Permission to appeal was granted by Deputy Tribunal Judge Shepherd on 9 th May 2024 as follows:

a. Ground 1: the Judge failed to consider how the Appellant would be perceived on return, whether or not his motives in carrying out sur place activity in the UK are genuine;

b. Ground 2: the Judge failed to take account of whether risk arises from the appellant's evidence of having 950 friends on Facebook, regardless of whether the appellant deletes his account in advance of return to Iran;