Notícia em inglês retirada de SB News:
STOCKHOLM (AFP) — An Iranian woman whose asylum request was rejected by Sweden said Thursday she feared for her life if she were to be deported to Iran because of her criticism of its government.
"I'm afraid of going back to Iran. I have to stay. There is no other possibility," said Rana Karimzadeh, 46, who came to Sweden in 2005 after fleeing Iran in 2001.
"I fear for my life," she told AFP.
A Swedish immigration court rejected her asylum request on August 19 after judging that she was not at risk of persecution if she returned to Iran, a court official said.
"We didn't think that her activism was intense enough for the Iranian regime to be interested in her or to hold anything against her," a court official, Ulrika Sandell, told AFP.
But Karimzadeh said: "I have three blogs in which I criticise the Iranian regime and I'm active in several associations that campaign for women's rights and against radical Islam."
Karimzadeh said that after fleeing Iran she had first stayed in the Netherlands where a first asylum request was rejected.
Her two daughters, aged 10 and 15, were ordered to leave Sweden with her.
A support group has been set up in Sweden to push for their right to stay and on Wednesday about 100 people demonstrated outside the Swedish parliament.
Karimzadeh has appealed the immigration court's ruling and a verdict is expected in late October.
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