Gay Malaysian man rejected for Australian protection visa could face persecution over sexuality, tribunal says | Australian politics

Australia’s Ministry of Interior rejected a protection visa offer, saying that a gay Malaysian man did not offer enough evidence that a LGBT person is a LGBT person.

However, the Administrative Investigation Court later admitted that the man was gay and may face the persecution in Malaysia and sent the man’s visa application back to the reassessment section last month.

Court decisionPublished this week, he said that the man accepts that he was gay and that he had the chance to encounter persecution if he returned to Malaysia, where gay actions between adults returned to Malaysia in a predictable future.

Luo, a member of the court, found a “convincing” explanation of his experiences, Malay Muslim. He said that the man was a refugee and therefore a person with Australia with protection obligations under the law of migration. He said that the persecution, the Sharia law and the criminal law can be prosecuted, so -called “transformation” practices and physical damage.

_{Registration: AU Breaking News E -Post}

In June 2022, the Adam asked a delegate to review a decision by a delegate to refuse to give him a protection visa.

He said he appeared before the court in July, noticed his charm to men during his high school years, but hiding sexuality until 19 or 20. Right now, he started to “deal with a friend”.

In 2016, the man claimed that his brother slapped him when he discovered him with another man in his room. Then he chased him from the house.

The man said he was trying to explain his feelings, but his family would not listen to because they were very religious ”.

Luo said that he had been rejected by his family who did not accept sexuality. In addition, after discovering that the man was gay, he admitted that he had ignored insults, bullying and ignorance by friends and colleagues in Malaysia.

The decision said, orum I admit that it has become introverted as a result of the negativity and stops doing or doing something else from work, which makes it feel depressed, ”he said.

Luo also acknowledged that the man’s sexuality was accepted in Australia.

The Malaysian government’s attitude towards LGBTQ+ problems is valid for all people, but for LGBTQ+ identity statements, it is more pronounced for Malay Muslims who face both Sharia and Penal Code crimes. Malaysian officials also encouraged transformation applications for LGBTQ+ people for Muslims.

The man went to Australia in February 2020. In the application for a protection visa that year, the man said he was gay and that he was a supporter of LGBT rights. When they discovered sexuality, he claimed that his family rejected him. He said he hadn’t contacted his family since he left Malaysia.

He claimed that his family was trying to find him unsuccessful after he left.

The department invited the man to provide more information and evidence to confirm his claims. In the decision, he said he did not respond to this request and did not interview by the department.

The delegate then refused to provide a visa because they found that the applicant did not provide enough information or evidence to satisfy his delegate that he was a LGBT person ”.

The Ministry is now required to reconsider the application regarding the order that the court meets the legal criteria for the protection visa.

The Ministry of Interior and the Minister of the Interior were contacted for a comment.