Published Date: 30 July 2009
The Home Secretary has agreed to reconsider a decision to refuse refuge to an asylum seeker living in south-east London who says he is "a man in a woman's body" and fears persecution in his homeland.
Human rights lawyers believe the case could set a precedent for other transgender applicants from Muslim countries who say they fear ill-treatment because their condition is not understood in the Islamic world.
The Pakistani national, referred to as X, came to the High Court in London on Thursday to challenge a decision last June to deport him. He first claimed asylum in the UK in December 2007.
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