UI2023005627

             The appellant appeals, with permission, against the determination of the First-tier Tribunal promulgated on 8 February 2023. By its decision, the Tribunal dismissed the appellant's appeal on all grounds against the Secretary of State's decision dated 13 May 2022 to refuse his protection and human rights claim.

             The FtTJ did make an anonymity order and no grounds were submitted during the hearing for such an order to be discharged. Anonymity is granted because the facts of the appeal involve a protection claim .

             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.

             The factual background can be summarised as follows. The appellant is a national of Iran of Kurdish ethnicity. He left Iran and entered the United Kingdom on 9 July 2021 and claimed asylum on that day. The basis of his claim was that he feared persecution in Iran based on having smuggled goods from Iraq into Iran as a Kolbar and due to an adverse political profile attributed to him as a result of his sur place activity whilst in the UK.

             The respondent refused the claim in a decision taken on 13 May 2022 which led to the appeal before the FtT in 2023. In a decision promulgated on 8 February 2023, the FtTJ dismissed the appeal.