MMaxi

Born 1884 Collande

Died 1956 Nuremberg

Education

Thechnische Hochschule, Munich, 1905-07
( architetural Studies )

Akademie, Dresden, 1907-10, 1912-13
Studied with Fernande Lèger and Maurice Denis, Paris

The Netherlands has rejected an asylum plea by a gay Iranian teenager trying to escape possible persecution in his homeland.

Mehdi Kazemi believes he will face persecution if he is made to return to Iran.

Mehdi Kazemi, 19, had originally sought asylum in Britain, where he was taking classes on a student visa, because, he said, his boyfriend had been executed in Iran after saying he and Kazemi had been in a gay relationship. Britain's Home Office rejected his request, prompting Kazemi to flee to Netherlands.

Tuesday's decision by the Council of State -- the highest administrative court in the Netherlands --means Kazemi could face deportation to Britain, which he fears will send him back to Iran.

Council spokeswoman Daniela Tempelman said the council decided it must comply with the Dublin Regulation and return Kazemi to Britain.
Under the Dublin Regulation, European Union member nations agree that an application for asylum submitted in any EU country would be handled by that country alone. The regulation seeks to ensures that an asylum seeker is not redirected from nation to nation simply because none will take responsibility.

Kazemi's initial appeal for asylum in the Netherlands, made in October, was rejected. He then appealed unsuccessfully to a regional court in December. His last appeal was to the Council of State in January.

Tempelman said that in order for the Dutch court to consider Kazemi's asylum application, he needed to prove that Britain did not handle his asylum application properly, but he wasn't able to prove any wrongdoing on the part of the British government.

Kazemi now has exhausted his chances for appeal in the Netherlands and, according to Tempelman, could be returned to Britain on a short notice. The British government about six months ago accepted the Dutch request to take him back.

Kazemi's lawyer will have the option of taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights to request an "interim measure" that could allow Kazemi to stay in Europe until further notice.

"If anybody signs his deportation papers and says, look, he's got to be deported to Iran, that means they have signed his death sentence," said Kazemi's uncle Saeed, who asked CNN to withhold his last name over safety concerns.

Gay rights activists in Europe and Iran are also researching Kazemi's case.

"When Britain is prepared to send a young man back to possible execution, that is inhumanity on a monumental scale," said Peter Tatchell, an activist for gay campaign group OutRage. "And I hang my head in shame, as a British citizen."

In a written statement, Britain's Home Office said that even though homosexuality is illegal in Iran and homosexuals do experience discrimination, it does not believe that homosexuals are routinely persecuted purely on the basis of their sexuality.


injustice |inˈjəstis|
noun
lack of fairness or justice : the injustice of the death penalty.
• an unjust act or occurrence : brooding over life's injustices.
PHRASES
do someone an injustice judge a person unfairly.
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, from Latin injustitia, from in- ‘not’ + justus ‘just, right.’

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acrimonious |ˌakrəˈmōnēəs|
adjective
(typically of speech or a debate) angry and bitter : an acrimonious dispute about wages.
DERIVATIVES
acrimoniously adverb
ORIGIN early 17th cent.(in the sense [bitter, pungent] ): from acrimony + -ous .

Thesaurus
acrimonious
adjective
a heated and acrimonious discussion bitter, angry, rancorous, caustic, acerbic, scathing, sarcastic, acid, harsh, sharp, cutting; virulent, spiteful, vicious, vitriolic, hostile, venomous, nasty, bad-tempered, ill-natured, mean, malign, malicious, malignant, waspish; informal bitchy, catty.

Former Democratic contender to the White House

DERIVATIVES
contender noun
ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [compete for (something)] ): from Old French contendre or Latin contendere, from con- ‘with’ + tendere ‘stretch, strive.’


Kerry, Smith Take On HIV Travel Ban
THREE CHEERS FOR TEAMWORK!

Senator John Kerry proved himself useful last week. The Democrat joined forces with Oregonian Republican Gordon Smith to introduce legislation easing America’s restrictions on HIV positive travelers. Those restrictions include nearly blanket bans on infected foreigners.
Kerry and Smith released a joint statement, saying:
The United States has one of the harshest restrictions in the world on HIV-positive immigrants.
…
It’s incredible that the federal government still tolerates a ban that not only restricts AIDS experts with the disease but also refugees who are seeking asylum in our country. My legislation will end this draconian law. The attempts to fix this law through a complex waiver system, while admirable, still don’t do anything to rectify the discriminatory underlying problem. That is why I have introduced this legislation to permanently strike this unfair provision from the books.
Kerry and Smith’s plan would give broader power to the Department of Health and Human Services, which originally managed such matters. Congress took control in 1993 with the Immigration and Nationality Act.
So it’s really not that monumental, but it’s better than nothing.


Sec. 1182. Inadmissible aliens

TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12, SUBCHAPTER II, Part II, Sec. 1182.
STATUTE

(a) Classes of aliens ineligible for visas or admission
Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

(1) Health-related grounds
(A) In general
Any alien -

(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance, which shall include infection with the etiologic agent for acquired IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME ,

(ii) except as provided in subparagraph (C), who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,

It still Hurts every-time I think of it and only last night I dreamt of it and it was not a nice dream.

They say a STORM is O'Comming but only wind and rain.

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A young woman leans over weakly in her chair, her head resting on a cushion on the table. The doctor is taking her pulse. What is the young lady suffering from? Probably she is not ill, just hopelessly in love. She is 'lovesick', her heart is broken. Jan Steen, the artist who painted the scene, depicted her with blushing cheeks and a smile on her lips. Contemporaries of Jan Steen would immediately have seen that this was not a real emergency. The 'doctor' is wearing clothes which were by then old-fashioned. Doctors in garments such as these were confined to the stage, where playwrights made fun of incompetent quacks.


Title The Sick Woman
Year c. 1665
ArtistJan Havicksz. Steen
Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 76 x 63,5 cm

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