IA005532020

For the Appellant: Ms M Cleghorn instructed by Parker Rhodes Hickmotts Solicitors

             The appeal is with permission against the decision of First-tier Tribunal Judge A M Buchanan promulgated on 13 May 2021. In that decision, the judge dismissed the appellant's asylum and protection claim.

             Turning to the appellant's sur place activities [34] to [37] the judge considered that his account lacks detail and credibility, the appellant giving no details of the demonstrations [37] and that:-

"I had no evidence from anyone present at any of those demonstrations to vouch for the appellant's attendance" ...

"The photographs before me do not show the Appellant taking any particularly leading role in any demonstration and I was given no information that any demonstration had attracted publicity or any evidence of surveillance by the Iranian authorities other than a general assertion (which I can accept) that the authorities would have some surveillance in place. The photographs which were placed before me could have been manufactured and I can place only minimal reliance on them. In reaching this conclusion, I take account of the guidance in Tanveer Ahmed ".