PanARMENIAN.Net

Young Armenian Threatened with Forced Deportation to
Baku

08.04.2006 20:26 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Illegal emigrant Karen Avanesyan,
who arrived in the UK three years ago at the age of
16, could not prove his right for asylum and
authorities decided to deport him to his fatherland.
According to his relatives, Avanesyan studied at
school and lived on an allowance paid by the state, as
he did not have the right to work. Karen is born in a
mixed marriage: his father is Azerbaijani and left the
family, when the boy was very young.

As Avanesyan was born in Nagorno Karabakh, which is
still de jure considered part of Azerbaijan, the
English decided Azerbaijan is his fatherland and
resolved to deport him to Baku. Avanesyan is already
informed that April 12 he will be taken aboard a
London-Moscow plane. From the Russian capital he will
be deported to Azerbaijan.

According to British laws, a person cannot be deported
to a country, where he is exposed to threat of
torture, Mediamax reports.