UI2024000062

For the Appellant: Mr A. A. Khan of Counsel, instructed by Thompson & Co Solicitors

Pursuant to Rule 14 of the Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) Rules 2008, I make an anonymity order. Unless the Upper Tribunal or a Court directs otherwise, no report of these proceedings or any form of publication thereof shall directly or indirectly identify the Appellant or members of her family. This direction applies to, amongst others, all parties. Any failure to comply with this direction could give rise to contempt of court proceedings. I make this order because the Appellant seeks international protection and is therefore entitled to privacy.

              This is an appeal against a decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge Hussain ("the Judge"), promulgated on 5 October 2023. By that decision, the Judge dismissed the Appellant's appeal against the decision of the Secretary of State to refuse her protection and human rights claim.

             The Appellant is a national of Vietnam. Her protection claim was made on the basis of the risk arising from her practising the Pure Hoa Hao religion. Her case was that she had suffered past persecution by reason of her religious beliefs and activities (she had been arrested and detained on three occasions) and that there is a real risk of such persecution on return to Vietnam.

             The fact of the Appellant's religious belief was not an issue at the hearing but her account of past persecution, and her claim of future risk, where in dispute. The Judge dismissed the appeal for the following reasons: